For example, make a call from the cloudstack server to create a ssh keypair called keypairdoc for the admin account in. Kvm, xenserver, xen cloud platform, vmware, and oracle vm. Mar 26, 2012 we will need to make a call to the createsshkeypair api method. Aws ec2 api support cloudstack provides an ec2 api translation layer to permit the common ec2 tools to be used in the use of a cloudstack cloud.
This api is not a standard like ogf occi or dmtf cimi but is easy to learn. We have already witnessed the fact that industry is adopting open source based cloud. If youre not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages. Cloudstack cloudmonkey cli apache software foundation. Below are api reference material for apache cloudstack, provided by major feature version. Configuration is read from several locations, in the following order. Creating an api plugin for cloudstack relative to cloudstacks root folder, lets leverage an existing maven project in pluginsapi as a template for yours. Welcome to apache cloudstack s documentation we have a number of guides, starting with a guide to cloudstack s terminology and concepts, moving through some information about possible topologies. Contribute to idcf cloudstackapi development by creating an account on github.
Instructions for building from source and installing apache cloudstack can be found in the installation guide. Cloudmonkey is the cloudstack command line interface cli. You can either use the cloudstack python api library or the curl commands to make the call to the cloudstack api. Cloudstack installation from git repo for developers apache. Apache cloudstack cloudmonkey apache cloudstack cloudmonkey. All present and future cloudstack api calls and parameters are supported. If you have api calls which contain asterisk characters, you will need to add the option safe for the url encoding.
May 10, 2012 the cloudstack api is a very powerful tool which once mastered provides administrators access to all of cloudstacks features, many of which are not available via the gui. Apache cloudstack provides a firstclass user interface ui, a command line tool named cloudmonkey 3, and a fullfeatured restful api. For example, make a call from the cloudstack server to create a ssh keypair called keypairdoc for the admin account in the root domain. Welcome to apache cloudstacks documentation apache. The official cloudstack release is always in source code form. Building from source apache cloudstack installation. Api interfaces 60 recipes for apache cloudstack book. It is a thin wrapper on top of the cloudstack api and hence it is able to adapt to any future version.
Cloudstack is an open source infrastructure as a service iaas software platform, which enables users to build, manage and deploy compute environments in publicprivate datacenters regardless of hypervisor. For now, the latest stable version of apache cloudstack is 4. Contribute to apache cloudstack documentation development by creating an account on github. It is written in python and shipped using the python cheeseshop, and since. Instructions for building from source and upgrading from a previous version of cloudstack to apache cloudstack 4. The same source code archive can also be used to build the windows and mac versions, and is the starting point for ports to all other platforms. You must make a call to the createsshkeypair api method. Cloudmonkey is a frontend to the api that offers both an interactive shell and a command line tool that. Api documentation below are api reference material for apache cloudstack, provided by major feature version. Welcome to apache cloudstacks documentation we have a number of guides, starting with a guide to cloudstacks terminology and concepts, moving through some information about possible topologies.
Managing apache cloudstack api and automation knowledge base. For more details on metadata and userdata, refer the cloudstack administrator guide. Installing from source 60 recipes for apache cloudstack. The cloudstack api is a very powerful tool which once mastered provides administrators access to all of cloudstacks features, many of which are not available via the gui. To do this, we use a python script in the marvin directory called deploydatacenter. Please help me in getting date about perfomace hipervizor using simple api in my case i used python. Api calls to native cloudstack api calls so that users can continue using existing awscompatible tools. Mar 28, 20 also mention business focus, lifecycle incubator to attic, ability to change modulo some difficulty. A subset of these changes are tracked in jira, which have a standard naming convention of cloudstacknnnn where nnnn is the issue number.
High availability cloudstack has a number of features to increase the availability of the system. We will use a solidfire project as a template for a new project called abc123. Apache cloudstack is an integrated infrastructureasaservice iaas software platform that allows users to build featurerich public and private cloud environments. The apache cloudstack cloudmonkey is a command line interface cli tool for cloudstack written in python.
Documentation home administration guide release notes note. But, for a better example of how to do this via the api, ill show example curl commands to the cloudstack api. Apache cloudstack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines. A subset of these changes are tracked in jira, which have a standard naming convention of cloudstacknnnn where nnnn is. Syntax highlight in the commandline client if pygments is installed. Apache cloudstack is the best kept secret in open source cloud computing and has a global user base of cloud operators many of whom contribute to the project. A simple, yet powerful cloudstack api client for python and the commandline. Cloudmonkey can be used both as an interactive shell and as a command line tool which simplifies cloudstack configuration and management. How to get the version of cloudstack through the api. Apache cloudstack previously used jira to track its issues and github for pull requests. Note that although this page shows the status of all builds of this package in ppm, including those available with the free community edition of activeperl, manually downloading modules ppmx package files is possible only with a business edition license. This script takes a json file as input and makes the required cloudstack api calls to create the zone, pod, cluster, host, and storage components of this single hypervisor data center.
Cloudstack apache cloudstack expose userdata, metadata, user password and account ssh key thru the virtualrouter. Using the cloudstack api for advanced network management. Mapping exists between the aws api and the cloudstack api as will be seen in the next section. Cloudstack api development apache cloudstack apache. Contribute to idcfcloudstackapi development by creating an account on github. Ec2stack is a new selection from 60 recipes for apache cloudstack book. Cloudstack provides an api that gives programmatic access to all the management features available in the ui.
Outline documentation clients exploration integration port signing requests rest or not rest 3. Also a larger community that has participated in writing documentation o. I personally use the cloudstack python api library that jason hancock published. During a number of recent projects the shapeblue consulting team needed to leverage these features in order to deliver the advanced solutions our clients required. Also mention business focus, lifecycle incubator to attic, ability to change modulo some difficulty. Cloudstack client generator command line tool that fetches and parses the online reference for cloudstack api and generates the client class in php with incode documentation.
Installing and configuring ec2stack cloudstack features a native ec2 query interface called awsapi that can be run on the management server. Sep 24, 2019 apache cloudstack is the best kept secret in open source cloud computing and has a global user base of cloud operators many of whom contribute to the project. It can be used with cloudstack releases since the 4. For most unix systems, you must download and compile the source code. If nothing happens, download the github extension for visual studio and try again. I am making the below call from my cloudstack server itself. You will likely be able to find convenience binaries, the source is the canonical release. Each feature version supports three levels of access, and the available api commands for each level are provided seperately. On cloudstack server you also have to install libselinuxpython. Two of the most popular and successful cloud management platforms cmp. Simple class for making api calls, python apache cloudstack.
Api cloudstack provides a restlike api for the operation, management and use of the cloud. Ansible cloudstack modules do not find cloudstack python library cs. This api enables the creation of command line tools and new user interfaces to suit particular needs. We now have more than 160 people whove submitted patches that have been included into master or a release according to gitshortlog. Api and secret keys can be created via cloudstack management server ui, accountsusersgenerate. We then have a quick start guide to help you get a very simple cloudstack up and running. Contribute to terbolous cloudstackpython client development by creating an account on github. The content of this article was written by sebastien goasguen on the build a cloud blog. The datasource obtains the vr address via dhcp lease information given to the instance.
See the developers guide and api reference, both available at apache cloudstack guides and apache cloudstack api reference respectively. Each feature version supports three levels of access, and the. Cloudstack includes an intuitive user interface and rich api for managing the compute, networking, software, and storage resources. This means all apis exposed by plugins such as acl, network, hypervisors and even managementserver is a pluggableservice, and all pluggableservice expose an interface getcommands which returns a list of api cmd classes. You can now start configuring a zone, playing with the api.
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