The ProfitBricks CLI wraps the ProfitBricks REST API allowing you to interact with it from a command-line interface.
Before you begin you will need to have signed-up for a ProfitBricks account. The credentials you establish during sign-up will be used to authenticate against the ProfitBricks API.
Please utilize one of the following URL's to retrieve an install script that is appropriate for your environment.
GitHub - ProfitBricks Linux Install
GitHub - ProfitBricks Mac Install
GitHub - ProfitBricks Windows Install
If you prefer, you may install nodejs and npm manually. Then run the following to to install the ProfitBricks CLI module globally:
npm install -g profitbricks-cli
A list of available operations can be accessed directly from the command line.
Run profitbricks or profitbricks -h or profitbricks --help:
Usage: profitbricks [Options]
Options:
-h, --help Output usage information
-V, --version Output the version number
setup Configures credentials for ProfitBricks CLI
datacenter, [env] Data center operations
server, [env] Server operations
volume, [env] Volume operations
snapshot, [env] Snapshot operations
loadbalancer, [env] Load Balancer operations
nic, [env] NIC operations
ipblock, [env] IP Block operations
drives, [env] CD ROM drive operations
image [env] Image operations
lan [env] LAN operations
request [env] Request operations
-i, --id [env] Id
-n, --name [env] Name
-l, --location [env] Location
-d, --description [env] Description
-p, --path [env] Path to JSON script
--datacenterid [env] DatacenterId
-r, --ram [env] Ram size in multiples of 256 MB
-c, --cores [env] Number of cores
-a, --availabilityzone [env] Availability Zone
--licencetype [env] Licence Type
--bootVolume [env] Reference to a Volume used for booting
--bootCdrom [env] Reference to a CD-ROM used for booting
--volumeid [env] Volume id
--volumesize [env] Volume size
--volumename [env] Volume name
--imageid [env] Image id
-b, --bus [env] Bus type (VIRTIO or IDE)
-s, --size [env] Size in GB
--cpuHotPlug Volume is capable of CPU hot plug (no reboot required)
--cpuHotUnplug Volume is capable of CPU hot unplug (no reboot required)
--ramHotPlug Volume is capable of memory hot plug (no reboot required)
--ramHotUnplug Volume is capable of memory hot unplug (no reboot required)
--nicHotPlug Volume is capable of NIC hot plug (no reboot required)
--nicHotUnplug Volume is capable of NIC hot unplug (no reboot required)
--discVirtioHotPlug Volume is capable of Virt-IO drive hot plug (no reboot required)
--discVirtioHotUnplug Volume is capable of Virt-IO drive hot unplug (no reboot required)
--discScsiHotPlug Volume is capable of SCSI drive hot plug (no reboot required)
--discScsiHotUnplug Volume is capable of SCSI drive hot unplug (no reboot required)
--ip [env] IPv4 address of the load balancer.
--dhcp [evn] Indicates if the load balancer will reserve an IP using DHCP.
--serverid [env] Server id
--lan [env] The LAN ID the NIC will sit on. If the LAN ID does not exist it will be created.
--public [evn] Boolean indicating if the LAN faces the public Internet or not.
--json Print results as JSON string
-f, --force Forces execution
Before using the ProfitBrick's CLI to perform any operations, we'll need to set our credentials:
$ profitbricks setup
>prompt: username:username
>prompt: password:
You will be notified with the following message if you have provided incorrect credentials:
>Invalid user name or password. Please try again!
After successful authentication you will no longer need to provide credentials unless you want to change them. They are stored as a BASE64 encoded string in a '.auth' file in your home directory.
These examples assume that you don't have any resources provisioned under your account. The first thing we will want to do is create a data center to hold all of our resources.
We need to supply some parameters to get our first data center created. In this case, we will set the location to 'us/lasdev' so that this data center is created under the DevOps Data Center. Other valid locations can be determined by reviewing the REST API Documentation. That documentation is an excellent resource since that is what the ProfitBricks CLI is calling to complete these operations.
$ profitbricks datacenter create --name "Demo" --description "CLI Demo Data Center" --location "us/lasdev"
Datacenter
-----------------------------------------------------
Id Name Location
------------------------------------ ---- ---------
3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393 Demo us/lasdev
RequestID: 45dbf0ba-fc1b-4a2c-855f-a11705a996b8
Et voilà, we've successfully provisioned a data center. Notice the "Id" that was returned. That UUID was assigned to our new data center and will be needed for other operations. The "RequestID" that was returned can be used to check on the status of any create or update operations.
$ profitbricks request get -i 45dbf0ba-fc1b-4a2c-855f-a11705a996b8
Status: DONE
Message: Request has been successfully executed
Next we'll create a server in the data center. This time we have to pass the 'Id' for the data center in, along with some other relevant properties (processor cores, memory, boot volume or boot CD-ROM) for the new server.
$ profitbricks server create --datacenterid 3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393 --cores 2 --name "Demo Server" --ram 256
Server
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name AvailabilityZone State Cores Memory
------------------------------------ ----------- ----------------- ----- ----- ------
03334965-466b-470a-8fe5-6d6e461402a5 Demo Server null BUSY 2 256RAM
Whoops, we didn't assign enough memory to our instance. Lets go ahead and update the server to increase the amount of memory it has assigned. We'll need the datacenterid, the id of the server we are updating, along with the parameters that we want to change.
$ profitbricks server update --datacenterid 3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393 -i 11767ba1-6290-420f-a0bf-b77679a285b2 --cores 1 --name "Demo Server" --ram 1024
Server
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Availability Zone State Cores Memory
------------------------------------ ----------- ----------------- ----- ----- -------
03334965-466b-470a-8fe5-6d6e461402a5 Demo Server AUTO BUSY 1 1024RAM
Lets take a look at the list of servers in our data center. There are a couple more listed in here for demonstration purposes.
$ profitbricks server list --datacenterid 3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393
Servers
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Availability Zone State Cores Memory
------------------------------------ ----------- ----------------- --------- ----- -------
11767ba1-6290-420f-a0bf-b77679a285b2 Demo Srvr 3 AUTO AVAILABLE 1 1024RAM
9126cef1-d310-4b4c-953f-eb37a55beea4 Demo Srvr 2 AUTO INACTIVE 1 1024RAM
5a8b18b1-7ba9-4139-9811-6232673a23db Demo Srvr 1 AUTO AVAILABLE 2 1024RAM
Now that we have a server provisioned, it needs some storage. We'll specify a size for this storage volume in GB as well as set the 'bus' and 'licencetype'. The 'bus' setting can have a serious performance impact and you'll want to use VIRTIO when possible. Using VIRTIO may require drivers to be installed depending on the OS you plan to install. The 'licencetype' impacts billing rate, as there is a surcharge for running certain OS types.
$ profitbricks volume create --datacenterid 3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393 --size 12 --bus VIRTIO --licencetype LINUX --type HDD --name "Demo Srvr 1 Boot"
Volume
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Size Licence Bus State
------------------------------------ ---- ---- ------- ------ -----
d7dc58a1-9505-48f5-9db4-22cff0659cf8 null 12 LINUX VIRTIO BUSY
The volume we've created is not yet connected or attached to a server. To accomplish that we'll use the dcid and serverid values returned from the previous commands:
$ profitbricks volume attach --datacenterid 3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393 --serverid 03334965-466b-470a-8fe5-6d6e461402a5 -i d7dc58a1-9505-48f5-9db4-22cff0659cf8
Volume
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Size Licence Bus State
------------------------------------ ---------------- ---- ------- ---- -----
d7dc58a1-9505-48f5-9db4-22cff0659cf8 Demo Srvr 1 Boot 12 LINUX null BUSY
Let's take a look at all the volumes in the data center:
$ profitbricks volume list --datacenterid 3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393
Volumes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Size Licence Bus State
------------------------------------ ---------------- ---- ------- ------ ---------
d231cd2e-89c1-4ed4-b4ad-d0a2c8b2b4a7 Demo Srvr 1 Boot 10 LINUX VIRTIO AVAILABLE
53ff2942-b28e-4759-8bd9-8eb2a3533ab4 Demo Srvr 2 Boot 12 LINUX VIRTIO AVAILABLE
If we have a volume we'd like to keep a copy of, perhaps as a backup, we can take a snapshot:
$ profitbricks snapshot create --datacenterid 3fc832b1-558f-48a4-bca2-af5043975393 --volumeid d231cd2e-89c1-4ed4-b4ad-d0a2c8b2b4a7
Snapshot
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Size Created State
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ ---- -------------------- -----
cf90b2e3-179b-4bff-a84c-d53ca58487dd Demo Srvr 1 Boot-Snapshot-07/27/2015 null 2015-07-27T17:41:41Z BUSY
Here is a list of the snapshots in our account:
$ profitbricks snapshot list
Snapshots
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Size Created State
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ ---- -------------------- ---------
cf90b2e3-179b-4bff-a84c-d53ca58487dd Demo Srvr 1 Boot-Snapshot-07/27/2015 10 2015-07-27T17:41:42Z AVAILABLE
Now that we have a snapshot created, we can change the name to something more descriptive:
$ profitbricks snapshot update -i cf90b2e3-179b-4bff-a84c-d53ca58487dd --name "Demo Srvr 1 OS just installed"
Snapshot
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Id Name Size Created State
------------------------------------ ----------------------------- ---- -------------------- -----
cf90b2e3-179b-4bff-a84c-d53ca58487dd Demo Srvr 1 OS just installed 10 2015-07-27T17:41:42Z BUSY
We can delete our snapshot when we are done with it:
$ profitbricks snapshot delete -i cf90b2e3-179b-4bff-a84c-d53ca58487dd
You are about to delete a snapshot. Do you want to proceed? (y/n
prompt: yes: y
Now we've had a taste of working with the ProfitBricks CLI. The reference section below will provide some additional information regarding what parameters are available for various operations.
$ profitbricks datacenter list
$ profitbricks datacenter get -i [dcid]
$ profitbricks datacenter show -i [dcid]
$ profitbricks datacenter create -p [path_to_json]
$ profitbricks datacenter create --name [name] --description [text] --location [location]
$ profitbricks datacenter update -i [dcid] --name [name] --description [text]
$ profitbricks datacenter delete -i [dcid]
$ profitbricks server list --datacenterid [dcid]
$ profitbricks server show --datacenterid [dcid] -i [serverid]
$ profitbricks server create --datacenterid [dcid] --cores [cores] --name [name] --ram [ram] --volumeid [preexisting_volume_id]
$ profitbricks server create --datacenterid [dcid] -p [path_to_json]
$ profitbricks server update --datacenterid [dcid] -i [serverid] --cores [cores] --name [name] --ram [ram]
$ profitbricks server delete --datacenterid [dcid] -i [serverid]
$ profitbricks server start --datacenterid [dcid] -i [serverid]
$ profitbricks server stop --datacenterid [dcid] -i [serverid]
$ profitbricks server reboot --datacenterid [dcid] -i [serverid]
$ profitbricks volume list --datacenterid [dcid]
$ profitbricks volume show --datacenterid [dcid] -i [volumeid]
$ profitbricks volume create --datacenterid [dcid] -p [path_to_json]
$ profitbricks volume create --datacenterid [dcid] --name [name] --size [size] --bus [bus] --type [HDD/SSD]
$ profitbricks volume attach --datacenterid [dcid] --serverid [serverid] -i [volumeid]
$ profitbricks volume detach --datacenterid [dcid] --serverid [serverid] -i [volumeid]
$ profitbricks volume update -i [id] --datacenterid [dcid] --name [name]
$ profitbricks volume delete --datacenterid [dcid] -i [volumeid]
$ profitbricks snapshot list
$ profitbricks snapshot create --datacenterid [dcid] --volumeid [volumeid]
$ profitbricks snapshot update -i [snapshotid] --name [name]
$ profitbricks snapshot delete -i [snapshotid]
$ profitbricks loadbalancer list --datacenterid [dcid]
$ profitbricks loadbalancer show --datacenterid [dcid] -i [loadbalancerid]
$ profitbricks loadbalancer create --datacenterid [dcid] --name [name] --ip [ip] --dhcp [true|false]
$ profitbricks loadbalancer create --datacenterid [dcid] -p [path_to_json]
$ profitbricks loadbalancer update -i [loadbalancerid] --datacenterid [dcid] --name [name]
$ profitbricks loadbalancer delete -i [loadbalancerid] --datacenterid [dcid]
$ profitbricks image list
$ profitbricks image show -i [imageid]
$ profitbricks image update -i [imageid] --name [name] ---description [description] --licencetype [licencetype]
$ profitbricks image delete -i [imageid]
$ profitbricks nic list --datacenterid [dcid] --serverid [serverid]
$ profitbricks nic get --datacenterid [dcid] --serverid [serverid] -i [nicid]
$ profitbricks nic create --datacenterid [dcid]--serverid [serverid] -p [path_to_json]
$ profitbricks nic create --datacenterid [dcid] --serverid [serverid] --name [name] --ip [ip] --dhcp [true|false] --lan [lan]
$ profitbricks nic update -i [nicid] --datacenterid [dcid] --serverid [serverid] --name [name] --ip [ip] --dhcp [true|false] --lan [lan]
$ profitbricks nic update --datacenterid [dc] --serverid [server] -i [nicid] --addip 1.1.1.1
$ profitbricks nic update --datacenterid [dc] --serverid [server] -i [nicid] --removeip 1.1.1.1
$ profitbricks nic delete -i [nicid] --datacenterid [dcid] --serverid [serverid]
$ profitbricks nic list --datacenterid [dcid] --loadbalancerid [lbid]
$ profitbricks nic attach --datacenterid [dcid] --loadbalancerid [lbid] -i [nicid]
$ profitbricks nic detach --datacenterid [dcid] --loadbalancerid [lbid] -i [nicid]
$ profitbricks ipblock list
$ profitbricks ipblock show -i [ipblockid]
$ profitbricks ipblock create --location [location] --size [size]
$ profitbricks ipblock delete -i [ipblockid]
profitbricks location list
You are welcome to contact us with questions or comments at ProfitBricks DevOps Central. Please report any issues via GitHub's issue tracker.