baremetalcloud's Knife plugin

This is baremetalcloud's implementation for Chef's Knife command. The plugin allows Chef users to manage compute nodes on baremetalcloud's infrastructure.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'knife-baremetalcloud'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install knife-baremetalcloud

Usage

Available commands:

knife baremetalcloud list configurations (options)
knife baremetalcloud list images (options)
knife baremetalcloud list servers (options)
knife baremetalcloud server create (options)

List Configurations

Description

This command list all available server's configurations at baremetalcloud.

Parameters

-P, --password PASSWORD Customer password -x, --username USERNAME Customer username

Usage

$ knife baremetalcloud list configurations -x USERNAME -P PASSWORD

Example of Output

Column description:

quantityconfiguration
  • configuration string is a required argument when running command($ knife baremetalcloud server create).
19  santaclara-ca-usa 2.8 GHz Paxville 2GB DDR-400 73.0GB 3.5" SCSI 10000RPM
4   santaclara-ca-usa 2.66 GHz Clovertown X5355 8GB DDR2-667 250.0GB 2.5" SATA 7200RPM
4   santaclara-ca-usa 2.8 GHz Paxville 4GB DDR-400 73.0GB 3.5" SCSI 10000RPM
5   santaclara-ca-usa 2.66 GHz Woodcrest E5150 8GB DDR2-667 250.0GB 2.5" SATA 7200RPM
1   miami-fl-usa 2.0 GHz Gainestown E5504 48GB DDR3-1066 120.0GB 2.5" SATA 7200RPM
3   santaclara-ca-usa 2.66 GHz Clovertown X5355 8GB DDR-400 500.0GB 2.5" SATA 7200RPM
9   santaclara-ca-usa 2.66 GHz Woodcrest E5150 4GB DDR-400 73.0GB 2.5" SAS 10000RPM
1   miami-fl-usa 2.8 GHz Paxville 8GB DDR-400 73.0GB 3.5" SCSI 10000RPM

List Images

Description

This command lists all the available images with baremetalcloud.

Parameters

-P, --password PASSWORD Customer password -x, --username USERNAME Customer username

Usage

$ knife baremetalcloud list images -x USERNAME -P PASSWORD

Example of Output

Column description:

image sizeimage name
  • image name string is a required argument when running command($ knife baremetalcloud server create). 361M CentOS 5.8 565M CentOS 6.2 319M XenServer 5.6 SP2 321M Ubuntu 11.10 441M Ubuntu 12.04 6.1G Windows Server 2008 Standard 3.7G Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 183M SmartOS

List Servers

Description

This command lists all servers from a customers account with baremetalcloud.

Parameters

-P, --password PASSWORD Customer password -x, --username USERNAME Customer username

Usage

$ knife baremetalcloud list servers -x USERNAME -P PASSWORD

Example of Output

Column description:

idstatusnamelocationIPusernamepassword 
1234    Active  server-baa  miami-fl-usa    111.222.333.444 ubuntu  PASSWORD
5678    Active  server-foo  miami-fl-usa    555.666.777.888 root    PASSWORD

Server Create

Description

The command below will add a server with baremetalcloud and bootstrap.

Parameters

-P, --password PASSWORD Customer password -x, --username USERNAME Customer username -C, --configuration CONFIG Hardware configuration string of the server -i, --image IMAGE_NAME Either baremetalcloud published or customer images -n, --name NAME Label for the new servers -r, --run-list RUN_LIST Comma separated list of roles/recipes to apply

Usage

$ knife baremetalcloud list images -x USERNAME -P PASSWORD -C 'santaclara-ca-usa 2.8 GHz Paxville 2GB DDR-400 73.0GB 3.5" SCSI 10000RPM' -i 'CentOS 5.8' -n 'myChefServer' -r 'myrole[cookbook]'

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request