Knife Glesys

knife-glesys is a Knife addon that will make it easier manage your VPS at Glesys. You can create, delete, list and show info about your servers. To be able to use this addon you need to create a Glesys API key with permission to IP and SERVER. You do this in their control panel.

To use the addon install it as a normal gem, from your command line run:

$ gem install knife-glesys

To configure the addon you can either add your Glesys username and your API key to knife.rb in your chef directory.

knife[:glesys_username] = "YOUR USERNAME"
knife[:glesys_api_key]  = "YOUR API KEY"

Or you can pass your username and your API key to the knife glesys command.

$ knife glesys server list --glesys-api-key "YOUR API KEY" --glesys-username "YOUR USERNAME"

When creating a new instance you there are some options you need to supply for it to work, template (server image), platform, data-center, root-password and a hostname. It is recommended that you also specify the number of cpu cores, the amount of memory and disksize. Or else these will default to 1 cpu core, 512 mb memory and 10 gb disk. If you want to view the options you can just run the command without any options.

$ knife glesys server create (options)

To create a OpenVZ Debian server in Stockholm you run this command (This will also provision the host with the db role):

$ knife glesys server create --image "Debian 6.0 64-bit" --platform "OpenVZ" --data-center "Stockholm" \
  --cpu-cores 1 --memory-size 128 --transfer 50 -N database --run-list 'role[:db]' \
  --hostname "data.example.com" --root-password 'passw0rd' --description "Redis database server"

Glesys offers many different templates (or images) to use when you spin up a new VPS. To get a list of all available and on which platform you run:

$ knife glesys templates list

To list your servers that you have connected to your account. This will give you a list with

$ knife glesys server list

To get detailed information about a server like how much memory that is used and how much the server costs you can issue the info command.

$ knife glesys server info vz31337

Every server has a uniqe id at Glesys. Just pass this id to the delete command to erase the server.

$ knife glesys server delete vz31337

And to at the same time delete the Chef node pass the --purge option to the delete command.

There are a few things that still needs to be fixed (in no special order).

• Manage Glesys IPs
• Graph server stats in console

• Needs HEAD version of fog to work

I like contributions, so if you find any errors please add a issue or even better, send a pull request.

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

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Copyright (c) 2013 smgt (Simon Gate)

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