hetzner-control 0.5.0

CLI application for managing servers on the Hetzner platform

hetzner-control

hetzner-control its CLI tool, which lets you easily manage servers on the Hetzner platform

Table of contents

• Motivation
• Usage
• Installation guide
• Want to contribute?
• License

Motivation

I wanted to create a console application that would interact with the REST API of the cloud service for convenient server management and the platform in general.

I also wanted to improve my skills in application design and API work while I'm studying software engineering in university.

Usage

$ htz [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:

• --install-completion: Install completion for the current shell.
• --show-completion: Show completion for the current shell, to copy it or customize the installation.
• --help: Show documentation message for available commands/flags

Commands:

• info: Information about available data centers, servers, prices
• server: Operations with servers
• version: Show app version

For a more detailed description of the command, see wiki page

Installation guide

1. First, install environment variable, i.e. in .bashrc

$ export HETZNER_API_TOKEN="YOUR_HETZNER_TOKEN_HERE"

2. Installation option
   • You can install hetzner-control from pip

     $ pip3 install hetzner-control
     

   • Or you can clone the repository and build the wheel/sdist module with poetry (you can preinstall poetry):

     $ git clone https://github.com/Hanabiraa/hetzner-control.git
     $ cd hetzner-control
     $ poetry install
     $ poetry build
     

Want to contribute?

1. Clone repo and create a new branch:

$ git checkout https://github.com/Hanabiraa/hetzner-control -b name_for_new_branch

2. Make changes and test
3. Submit Pull Request with comprehensive description of changes

License

MIT License