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Create Virtual Devices Using Equinix APIs
You can create Virtual Devices using Equinix APIs. Many vendors, including Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and others, offer firewalls and routers on our platform.
Check out our use cases to understand the required steps and the set of APIs you need to create Clusters, SD-WANs, and other Self-Configured devices:
https://developer.equinix.com/dev-docs/ne/getting-started/launch-cluster-device
https://developer.equinix.com/dev-docs/ne/getting-started/launch-sdwan-device
https://developer.equinix.com/dev-docs/ne/getting-started/launch-self-configured-device
You could take advantage of the Postman collection listed on the above pages to get the payload to create any device type.
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Thanks for sharing. For those looking to get started they can follow this easy tutorial about our Virtual Devices:
https://docs.equinix.com/en-us/Content/Interconnection/NE/user-guide/NE-create-device.htm
Here's a helpful doc on Network Edge, firewalls, and the hardware vendors:
https://www.equinix.com/products/digital-infrastructure-services/network-edge
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