The OpenStack node.js SDK is available as part of pkgcloud
, a multi-provider cloud provisioning package
Pkgcloud currently supports OpenStack Nova (compute) and OpenStack Swift (storage).
To install pkgcloud
from the command line:
npm install pkgcloud
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In this example, we're going to create a OpenStack compute client, create two servers, and then output their details to the command line.
Note: We're going to use lodash.js for some convenience functions. Note: For DevStack, change AuthUrl to http://:5000
var pkgcloud = require('pkgcloud'),
_ = require('lodash');
// create our client with your openstack credentials
var client = pkgcloud.compute.createClient({
provider: 'openstack',
username: 'your-user-name',
password: 'your-password',
region: 'RegionOne', //default for DevStack, might be different on other OpenStack distributions
authUrl: 'https://your-identity-service'
});
// first we're going to get our flavors
client.getFlavors(function (err, flavors) {
if (err) {
console.dir(err);
return;
}
// then get our base images
client.getImages(function (err, images) {
if (err) {
console.dir(err);
return;
}
// Pick a 512MB instance flavor
var flavor = _.findWhere(flavors, { name: 'm1.tiny' });
// Pick an image based on Ubuntu 12.04
var image = _.findWhere(images, { name: 'cirros-0.3.2-x86_64-uec' }); // Check if this version is correct
// Create our first server
client.createServer({
name: 'server1',
image: image,
flavor: flavor
}, handleServerResponse);
// Create our second server
client.createServer({
name: 'server2',
image: image,
flavor: flavor
}, handleServerResponse);
});
});
// This function will handle our server creation,
// as well as waiting for the server to come online after we've
// created it.
function handleServerResponse(err, server) {
if (err) {
console.dir(err);
return;
}
console.log('SERVER CREATED: ' + server.name + ', waiting for active status');
// Wait for status: RUNNING on our server, and then callback
server.setWait({ status: server.STATUS.running }, 5000, function (err) {
if (err) {
console.dir(err);
return;
}
console.log('SERVER INFO');
console.log(server.name);
console.log(server.status);
console.log(server.id);
console.log('Make sure you DELETE server: ' + server.id +
' in order to not accrue billing charges');
});
}