Getting Started =============== This getting started guide will provide a quick tour of some CloudBridge features. For more details on individual features, see the `Using CloudBridge `_ section or the `API reference `_. Installation ------------ CloudBridge is available on PyPI so to install the latest available version, run:: pip install --upgrade cloudbridge Create a provider ----------------- To start, you will need to create a reference to a provider object. The provider object identifies the cloud you want to work with and supplies your credentials. The following two code snippets setup a necessary provider object, for AWS and OpenStack. For the details on other providers, take a look at the `Setup page `_. The remainder of the code is the same for either provider. AWS: .. code-block:: python from cloudbridge.cloud.factory import CloudProviderFactory, ProviderList config = {'aws_access_key': 'AKIAJW2XCYO4AF55XFEQ', 'aws_secret_key': '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'} provider = CloudProviderFactory().create_provider(ProviderList.AWS, config) image_id = 'ami-d85e75b0' # Ubuntu 14.04 OpenStack: .. code-block:: python from cloudbridge.cloud.factory import CloudProviderFactory, ProviderList config = {'os_username': 'username', 'os_password': 'password', 'os_tenant_name': 'tenant name', 'os_auth_url': 'authentication URL', 'os_region_name': 'region name'} provider = CloudProviderFactory().create_provider(ProviderList.OPENSTACK, config) image_id = 'c1f4b7bc-a563-4feb-b439-a2e071d861aa' # Ubuntu 14.04 @ NeCTAR List some resources ------------------- Once you have a reference to a provider, explore the cloud platform: .. code-block:: python provider.compute.images.list() provider.security.security_groups.list() provider.block_store.snapshots.list() provider.object_store.list() This will demonstrate the fact that the library was properly installed and your provider object is setup correctly but it is not very interesting. Therefore, let's create a new instance we can ssh into using a key pair. Create a key pair ----------------- We'll create a new key pair and save the private portion of the key to a file on disk as a read-only file. .. code-block:: python kp = provider.security.key_pairs.create('cloudbridge_intro') with open('cloudbridge_intro.pem', 'w') as f: f.write(kp.material) import os os.chmod('cloudbridge_intro.pem', 0400) Create a security group ----------------------- Next, we need to create a security group and add a rule to allow ssh access. .. code-block:: python sg = provider.security.security_groups.create( 'cloudbridge_intro', 'A security group used by CloudBridge') sg.add_rule('tcp', 22, 22, '0.0.0.0/0') Launch an instance ------------------ Before we can launch an instance, we need to decide what image to use so let's get a base Ubuntu image ``ami-d85e75b0`` and launch an instance. .. code-block:: python img = provider.compute.images.get(image_id) inst_type = sorted([t for t in provider.compute.instance_types.list() if t.vcpus >= 2 and t.ram >= 4], key=lambda x: x.vcpus*x.ram)[0] inst = provider.compute.instances.create( name='CloudBridge-intro', image=img, instance_type=inst_type, key_pair=kp, security_groups=[sg]) # Wait until ready inst.wait_till_ready() # Show instance state inst.state # 'running' inst.public_ips # [u'54.166.125.219'] From the command prompt, you can now ssh into the instance ``ssh -i cloudbridge_intro.pem ubuntu@54.166.125.219``. Cleanup ------- To wrap things up, let's clean up all the resources we have created .. code-block:: python inst.terminate() sg.delete() kp.delete() And that's it - a full circle in a few lines of code. You can now try the same with a different provider. All you will need to change is the cloud-specific data, namely the provider setup and the image ID.