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A simple, yet powerful CloudStack API client for python and the command-line.
::
pip install cs
# with the colored output
pip install cs[highlight]
# with the async support
pip install cs[async]
# with both
pip install cs[async,highlight]
In Python:
.. code-block:: python
from cs import CloudStack
cs = CloudStack(endpoint='https://api.exoscale.ch/v1',
key='cloudstack api key',
secret='cloudstack api secret')
vms = cs.listVirtualMachines()
cs.createSecurityGroup(name='web', description='HTTP traffic')
From the command-line, this requires some configuration:
.. code-block:: console
cat $HOME/.cloudstack.ini
.. code-block:: ini
[cloudstack]
endpoint = https://api.exoscale.ch/v1
key = cloudstack api key
secret = cloudstack api secret
# Optional ca authority certificate
verify = /path/to/certs/exoscale_ca.crt
# Optional client PEM certificate
cert = /path/to/client_exoscale.pem
# If you need to pass the certificate and key as separate files
cert_key = /path/to/client_key.pem
Then:
.. code-block:: console
$ cs listVirtualMachines
.. code-block:: json
{
"count": 1,
"virtualmachine": [
{
"account": "...",
...
}
]
}
.. code-block:: console
$ cs authorizeSecurityGroupIngress \
cidrlist="0.0.0.0/0" endport=443 startport=443 \
securitygroupname="blah blah" protocol=tcp
The command-line client polls when async results are returned. To disable
polling, use the --async
flag.
To find the list CloudStack API calls go to http://cloudstack.apache.org/api.html
Configuration is read from several locations, in the following order:
CLOUDSTACK_ENDPOINT
, CLOUDSTACK_KEY
, CLOUDSTACK_SECRET
and
CLOUDSTACK_METHOD
environment variables,CLOUDSTACK_CONFIG
environment variable pointing to an .ini
file,CLOUDSTACK_VERIFY
(optional) environment variable pointing to a CA authority cert file,CLOUDSTACK_CERT
(optional) environment variable pointing to a client PEM cert file,CLOUDSTACK_CERT_KEY
(optional) environment variable pointing to a client PEM certificate key file,cloudstack.ini
file in the current working directory,.cloudstack.ini
file in the home directory.To use that configuration scheme from your Python code:
.. code-block:: python
from cs import CloudStack, read_config
cs = CloudStack(**read_config())
Note that read_config()
can raise SystemExit
if no configuration is
found.
CLOUDSTACK_METHOD
or the method
entry in the configuration file can be
used to change the HTTP verb used to make CloudStack requests. By default,
requests are made with the GET method but CloudStack supports POST requests.
POST can be useful to overcome some length limits in the CloudStack API.
CLOUDSTACK_TIMEOUT
or the timeout
entry in the configuration file can
be used to change the HTTP timeout when making CloudStack requests (in
seconds). The default value is 10.
CLOUDSTACK_RETRY
or the retry
entry in the configuration file
(integer) can be used to retry list
and queryAsync
requests on
failure. The default value is 0, meaning no retry.
CLOUDSTACK_JOB_TIMEOUT
or the `job_timeoutentry in the configuration file (float) can be used to set how long an async call is retried assuming
fetch_resultis set to true). The default value is
None``, it waits forever.
CLOUDSTACK_POLL_INTERVAL
or the poll_interval
entry in the configuration file (number of seconds, float) can be used to set how frequently polling an async job result is done. The default value is 2.
CLOUDSTACK_EXPIRATION
or the expiration
entry in the configuration file
(integer) can be used to set how long a signature is valid. By default, it picks
10 minutes but may be deactivated using any negative value, e.g. -1.
CLOUDSTACK_DANGEROUS_NO_TLS_VERIFY
or the dangerous_no_tls_verify
entry
in the configuration file (boolean) can be used to deactivate the TLS verification
made when using the HTTPS protocol.
Multiple credentials can be set in .cloudstack.ini
. This allows selecting
the credentials or endpoint to use with a command-line flag.
.. code-block:: ini
[cloudstack]
endpoint = https://some-host/api/v1
key = api key
secret = api secret
[exoscale]
endpoint = https://api.exoscale.ch/v1
key = api key
secret = api secret
Usage::
$ cs listVirtualMachines --region=exoscale
Optionally CLOUDSTACK_REGION
can be used to overwrite the default region cloudstack
.
For the power users that don't want to put any secrets on disk,
CLOUDSTACK_OVERRIDES
let you pick which key will be set from the
environment even if present in the ini file.
CloudStack paginates requests. cs
is able to abstract away the pagination
logic to allow fetching large result sets in one go. This is done with the
fetch_list
parameter::
$ cs listVirtualMachines fetch_list=true
Or in Python::
cs.listVirtualMachines(fetch_list=True)
Once in a while, it could be useful to understand, see what HTTP calls are made
under the hood. The trace
flag (or CLOUDSTACK_TRACE
) does just that::
$ cs --trace listVirtualMachines
$ cs -t listZones
cs
provides the AIOCloudStack
class for async/await calls in Python
3.5+.
.. code-block:: python
import asyncio
from cs import AIOCloudStack, read_config
cs = AIOCloudStack(**read_config())
async def main():
vms = await cs.listVirtualMachines(fetch_list=True)
print(vms)
asyncio.run(main())
Async deployment of multiple VMs
.. code-block:: python
import asyncio
from cs import AIOCloudStack, read_config
cs = AIOCloudStack(**read_config())
machine = {"zoneid": ..., "serviceofferingid": ..., "templateid": ...}
async def main():
tasks = asyncio.gather(*(cs.deployVirtualMachine(name=f"vm-{i}",
**machine,
fetch_result=True)
for i in range(5)))
results = await tasks
# Destroy all of them, but skip waiting on the job results
await asyncio.gather(*(cs.destroyVirtualMachine(id=result['virtualmachine']['id'])
for result in results))
asyncio.run(main())
.. code-block:: shell-session
mktmpenv -p /usr/bin/python3
pip install -U twine wheel build
cd exoscale/cs
rm -rf build dist
python -m build
twine upload dist/*
Get Started with the exoscale API client <https://www.exoscale.com/syslog/2016/02/23/get-started-with-the-exoscale-api-client/>
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