The YugabyteDB Anywhere REST API allows you to deploy and manage universes programmatically. Some examples of what you can accomplish using this API include:

- Create and manage YugabyteDB Anywhere provider configurations
- Deploy and manage universes
- Pause and resume universes
- Perform software upgrades
- Run on-demand backups and restores
- Resize nodes

If you use Python, check out the Jupyter notebooks in the [yugabyte-db GitHub repository](https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/tree/master/managed/api-examples) for examples of performing various tasks using the API.

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