Ruby OpenStack Compute¶ ↑

Description¶ ↑

Ruby Openstack Compute binding for the v1.0 OSAPI.

Currently supports both v1.0 and v2.0 (keystone) auth.

Examples¶ ↑

See the class definitions for documentation on specific methods and operations.

require 'openstack/compute'

cs = OpenStack::Compute::Connection.new(:username => USERNAME, :api_key => API_KEY, :authtenant => TENANT, :auth_url => API_URL)	

# Get a listing of all current servers
>> cs.servers
=> [{:name=>"Server1", :id=>110917}]

# Access a specific server
>> server = cs.server(110917)
>> server.name
=> "Server1"

# See what type of server this is
>> server.flavor.name
=> "256 server"
>> server.image.name
=> "Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (hardy)"

# Soft-reboot the server
>> server.reboot
=> true

# Create a new 512MB CentOS 5.2 server.  The root password is returned in the adminPass method.
>> image = cs.get_image(8)
=> #<OpenStack::Compute::Image:0x1014a8060 ...>, status"ACTIVE"
>> image.name
=> "CentOS 5.2"
>> flavor = cs.get_flavor(2)
=> #<OpenStack::Compute::Flavor:0x101469130 @disk=20, @name="512 server", @id=2, @ram=512>
>> flavor.name
=> "512 server"
>> newserver = cs.create_server(:name => "New Server", :imageRef => image.id, :flavorRef => flavor.id)
=> #<OpenStack::Compute::Server:0x101433f08 ....
>> newserver.status
=> "BUILD"
>> newserver.progress
=> 0
>> newserver.adminPass
=> "NewServerMbhzUnO"
>> newserver.refresh
=> true
>> newserver.progress
=> 12

# Delete the new server
>> newserver.delete!
=> true

Authors¶ ↑

By Dan Prince <[email protected]>, Naveed Massjouni <[email protected]>

Based on the Rackspace Cloud Servers Ruby API.

License¶ ↑

See COPYING for license information.