OVH CLI

Presentation

Beta application use it at your own risk

Aim of this app, is to provide an administration command line that aim to access to ovh services thought the API (https://api.ovh.com/).

Quick start

Prerequisite

• Python 3

Installation

There's only two dependency (request & ovh), so you can install it in your main repo.

git clone <urlofthisrepo>
cd ovh-cli
pip install --user -r requirements.txt
pip install --user .

Get your OVH information in command line

You'll need credential api that have read only on all your OVH world.

Edit the file ~/.ovh-cli/secret and add the following section

[general]
project_name = <project_name>

[get-info]
application_key = <application_key>
application_secret = <application_secret>
consumer_key = <consumer_key>

project_name is the name of the ovh public_cloud project you'd like to interact by default with the API.

Then, use this command line ovh-get-info, it will display all the argument you can query.

Manage VM though command line

Edit the file ~/.ovh-cli/secret

[general]
project_name = <project_name>
base_distrib = <base distrib you want in your VM>
region = <OVH region>
ssh_key_id = <uuid of you ssh key>
private_network_id = <private network id>
public_network_id = <public network id>



[vm]
application_key = <application_key>
application_secret = <application_secret>
consumer_key = <consumer_key>

With :

• project_name : name of the OVH projet where you want to manage your VM
• base_distrib : name of the distribution you want installed by default on your new VM, list is available thought ovh-get-info image
• region : name of the ovh region to use, list available thought (ovh-get-info regions)
• ssh_key_id : id of the ssh key to be installed on a new vm (ovh-get-info ssh_key)
• private_network_id : id the vrack you want that vm to be connected (ovh-get-info private_network)
• public_network_id : default id of the public network connection (ovh-get-info public_network)