Joyent SmartDataCenter CloudAPI connector using http-signature authentication via Requests
Project description
Connect with Joyent’s SmartDataCenter CloudAPI via Python, using secure http-signature signed requests.
This is a third-party effort.
This module currently supports:
Secure connections (via py-http-signature)
Key management
Browsing and access of datacenters, datasets (OS distributions/VM bundles), and packages (machine sizes and resources)
Machine listing, search, creation, management (start/stop/reboot/resize/delete), snapshotting, metadata, and tags
It attempts to provide Pythonic objects (for Data Centers, Machines and Snapshots) and convenience methods only when appropriate, and otherwise deals with string identifiers or dicts as lightweight objects.
Requirements
PyCrypto (required by py-http-signature)
ssh (used by py-http-signature for its ssh-agent integration)
We assume that json is present because requests now requires py2.6 and up.
Python SmartDataCenter Links
Installation
pip install smartdc
Quickstart
from smartdc import DataCenter sdc = DataCenter(location='us-sw-1', key_id='/test/keys/test_key') sdc.datasets() sm = sdc.create_machine(name='test', dataset='sdc:sdc:smartosplus:', package='Small 1GB') sm.poll_until('running') import urllib2 urllib2.urlopen('http://' + sm.public_ips[0]).headers.dict sm.stop() sm.poll_until('stopped') sm.delete()
Why?
A colleague and I wanted something Pythonic to fit into our preferred toolchain, and the easiest approach was to build it myself. Requests made some aspects stupidly easy, which is why I created the dependency for the first version. The colleague wanted integration with ssh-agent, and using ssh was the easiest path to that.
License
MIT
Changes
- 0.1.6 (2012-04-30)
Fixed release issues (README), and moved documentation around. Integrated with ssh-agent changes in http_signature.
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