ca-cli

The ca is command line tool to invoke Cloud Automator API

Description

The ca is the initial letter of the Cloud Automator.

The ca is command line tool. You can easily use the Cloud Automator API. The execution result of the API is displayed on the command line as JSON.

see also:

• "Cloud Automator" - Change your way of cloud operation
  • https://cloudautomator.com/en/
• Cloud Automator API
  • https://cloudautomator.com/api_docs/v1/api.html

Demo

Features

• Works on Mac / Linux / Windows by binary file cross - compiled with Go.
• Since it works by just copying a single binary file, you do not have to worry about environment building and dependency.
• Sends http request to the Cloud Automator API using the specified argument.
• Response from API Output JSON directly to standard output.
• You can easily process the output of the command and pass it to another command or tool.

Requirement

• Go 1.8+
  • It is not necessary when using the released binary.
  • https://github.com/uchimanajet7/ca-cli/releases
• API Key created in your account of Cloud Automator.
  • For details on how to create API key, see url below.
  • http://blog.serverworks.co.jp/tech/2017/07/07/releasing-cloudautomator-rest-api/

Usage

First of all, create a profile using the configure command.

$ ./ca configure

API Key and Endpoint can be registered by executing the command.

$ ./ca configure
Register the information necessary for execution as a profile of "default".

API Key:
API Key: 123**************************abc
Endpoint:

API Key is required, Endpoint is set to change to default.

The ca command invoke the API using the registered API Key.

Multiple profiles

You can use it when you have multiple Cloud Automator accounts, or want to access multiple Endpoint.

Add the --profile flag to the command and specify the profile name.

You can create profiles named user1 and user2 by doing as follows.

$ ./ca configure --profile user1
  :
  (Enter information about user1)

$ ./ca configure --profile user2
  :
  (Enter information about user2)

To use the registered profile, please use the --profile flag.

More information

Please see the help.

$ ./ca help
A command line tool to invoke Cloud Automator(CA) API

Usage:
  ca [command]

Available Commands:
  aws-account Manage CA AWS accounts
  configure   Manage ca-cli profiles
  help        Help about any command
  job         Manage CA jobs
  log         Manage CA job logs
  version     Print the version number of ca-cli

Flags:
  -h, --help             help for ca
  -p, --profile string   Specify profile name (default "default")

Use "ca [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Installation

Please select the package file for your own environment from the releases page, download and unpack it, and put the executable file in a place where included in PATH.

• Releases · uchimanajet7/ca-cli
  • https://github.com/uchimanajet7/ca-cli/releases

If you build from source yourself.

$ go get github.com/uchimanajet7/ca-cli
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/uchimanajet7/ca-cli
$ make

Object type parameters

It is necessary to specify the object type as parameter when ca job create command.

An execution example is shown below.

$ ./ca job create \
--name "ca job create exsample" \
--aws-account-id 1 \
--rule-type cron \
--rule-value hour=2,minutes=0,schedule_type=weekly,weekly_schedule=monday,friday \
--action-type create_image \
--action-value region=ap-northeast-1\
,specify_image_instance=identifier\
,instance_id=i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\
,generation=1\
,image_name=exsample-ami\
,description="Job Create Exsample Cloud Automator CLI"\
,reboot_instance=true\
,additional_tag_key=name\
,additional_tag_value=exsample\
,add_same_tag_to_snapshot=true\
,trace_status=true\
,recreate_image_if_ami_status_failed=true

--rule-value and --action-value flag are object type. API parameter name = value format is connected with , and passed to the flag. If you want to express array by value, you can connect values with ,.

see also:

• Cloud Automator API
  • https://cloudautomator.com/api_docs/v1/api.html#ジョブ-post

Useful JSON tools

Besides the famous JSON tool jq, there are useful ones implemented by golang.

• jq
  • https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Especially jid is convenient because I can drill down into JSON interactively.

• simeji/jid: json incremental digger
  • https://github.com/simeji/jid
• JSONをインタラクティブに掘り下げるコマンド jid - Qiita
  • http://qiita.com/simeji/items/dd0464b7ed91c51ee618

Author

uchimanajet7

• Cloud Automator のAPI を呼び出すCLI をgolang で作ってみた #cloudautomator #golang #swx - uchimanajet7のメモ
  • http://uchimanajet7.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/08/09/121236
• Cloud Automator のAPI に後処理が追加されたのでCLIにも追加した件 #cloudautomator #golang #swx - uchimanajet7のメモ
  • http://uchimanajet7.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/08/17/090018

Licence

MIT