DESCRIPTION
Unofficial ruby bindings for VMware® vCloud Director's rest APIs.
Note: at this stage both v.1.5 and v.5.1 are supported. It defaults to v.5.1 but it's possible to specify _api_version="1.5".
See vCloud API for details.
INSTALLATION
This plugin is distributed as a Ruby Gem. To install it, run:
gem install vcloud-rest
Depending on your system's configuration, you may need to run this command with root privileges.
vcloud-rest is tested against ruby 2.0.0, 1.9.x and 1.8.7+.
FEATURES
- login/logout
- list/show Organizations
- show VDCs
- show Catalogs
- show Catalog Items
- various vApp's commands
- show
- create/clone
- start/stop/delete/reset/suspend/reboot
- basic network configuration
- basic VM configuration
- show
- set cpu/RAM
- basic network configuration
- basic VM Guest Customization configuration
- start/stop/delete/reset/suspend/reboot
- basic vApp compose capabilities
- basic vApp NAT port forwarding creation
- Catalog item upload with byterange upload and retry capabilities
- show Network details
TODO
- extend test coverage
- a lot more...
PREREQUISITES
- nokogiri ~> 1.6.0
- rest-client ~> 1.6.7
- httpclient ~> 2.3.3
- ruby-progressbar ~> 1.1.1
For testing purpose:
- minitest (included in ruby 1.9)
- webmock
USAGE
require 'vcloud-rest/connection'
conn = VCloudClient::Connection.new(HOST, USER, PASSWORD, ORG_NAME)
conn.login
conn.list_organizations
EXAMPLE
A (mostly complete) example can be found in
examples/example.rb
DEBUGGING
Debug can be enabled setting the following environment variables:
- VCLOUD_REST_DEBUG_LEVEL: to specify the log level (e.g., INFO)
- VCLOUD_REST_LOG_FILE: to specify the output file (defaults to STDOUT)
TESTING
Simply run:
rake
Or:
ruby spec/connection_spec.rb
Note: in order to run tests with ruby 1.8.7+ you need to export RUBYOPT="rubygems"
LICENSE
Author:: Stefano Tortarolo stefano.tortarolo@gmail.com
Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2012-2013 License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
CREDITS
This code was inspired by knife-cloudstack.