ali-cli 0.1.1

Wraps the Alibaba Cloud SDK to make complicated tasks a lot simpler.

Ali CLI

Wraps the Alibaba Cloud SDK to make complicated tasks a lot simpler.

Installation

Installation is easy, run the following command to install the CLI through Pip:

pip install ali-cli

You should see the default help output with the supported commands.

Configuration

To connect the CLI to your Alibaba Cloud account, you will either need to use the official Aliyun CLI to configure your credentials or create the configuration manually. To use the CLI, run aliyun configure and follow the prompts. If you don't want to install the official CLI, you can manually create the file ~/.aliyun/config.json with the following contents:

{
  "current": "",
  "profiles": [
    {
      "name": "",
      "mode": "AK",
      "access_key_id": "<ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
      "access_key_secret": "<ACCESS_KEY_SECRET>",
      "sts_token": "",
      "ram_role_name": "",
      "ram_role_arn": "",
      "ram_session_name": "",
      "private_key": "",
      "key_pair_name": "",
      "expired_seconds": 0,
      "verified": "",
      "region_id": "eu-central-1",
      "output_format": "json",
      "language": "zh",
      "site": "",
      "retry_timeout": 0,
      "retry_count": 0
    }
  ]
}

Replace <ACCESS_KEY_ID> with your access key ID and <ACCESS_KEY_SECRET> with your access key secret. Optionally, you can change the region to the region you like (eu-central-1 is Frankfurt).

Usage

Currently, Ali CLI only supports commands related to the Resource Orchestration Service (ROS). This allows you to deploy JSON templates as stacks, so you can use code to define your whole infrastructure.

To deploy an example bucket, run the following command:

ali ros create-stack --name ali-ros-test --template-path examples/ros/bucket.json --parameters BucketName=my-fancy-bucket

This will create the stack ali-ros-test, using the template in the examples/ros/bucket.json file and specifies the values to use for the template parameters. Feel free to modify the stack name and templates if you like.

To list stacks, run ali ros describe-stacks. This will output all the stacks in the current region.

To delete a stack, run ali ros delete-stack --name ali-ros-test. This will remove the stack you created above, including the provisioned resources.