A CLI helper tool for Puppet's VMPooler to help you stay afloat.
Grab the latest from ruby gems...
gem install vmfloaty
Run the docker image:
docker run -it --rm -v ~/.vmfloaty.yml:/home/floatyuser/.vmfloaty.yml ghcr.io/puppetlabs/vmfloaty --help
$ floaty --help
NAME:
floaty
DESCRIPTION:
A CLI helper tool for Puppet's VMPooler to help you stay afloat
COMMANDS:
completion Outputs path to completion script
delete Schedules the deletion of a host or hosts
get Gets a vm or vms based on the os argument
help Display global or [command] help documentation
list Shows a list of available vms from the pooler or vms obtained with a token
modify Modify a VM's tags, time to live, disk space, or reservation reason
query Get information about a given vm
revert Reverts a vm to a specified snapshot
service Display information about floaty services and their configuration
snapshot Takes a snapshot of a given vm
ssh Grabs a single vm and sshs into it
status Prints the status of pools in the pooler service
summary Prints a summary of a pooler service
token Retrieves or deletes a token or checks token status
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
-h, --help
Display help documentation
-v, --version
Display version information
-t, --trace
Display backtrace when an error occurs
Grabbing a token for authenticated pooler requests:
floaty token get --user username --url https://vmpooler.example.net/api/v1
This command will then ask you to log in. If successful, it will return a token that you can save either in a dotfile or use with other cli commands.
Grabbing vms:
floaty get centos-7-x86_64=2 debian-7-x86_64 windows-10=3 --token mytokenstring --url https://vmpooler.example.net/api/v1
If you do not wish to continually specify various config options with the cli, you can ~/.vmfloaty.yml
for some defaults. You can get a list of valid service types and example configuration files via floaty service types
and floaty service examples
, respectively.
This is the simplest type of configuration where you only need a single service:
# file at ~/.vmfloaty.yml
url: 'https://vmpooler.example.net/api/v1'
user: 'brian'
token: 'tokenstring'
Run floaty service examples
to see additional configuration options
Most commands allow you to specify a --service <servicename>
option to allow the use of multiple pooler instances. This can be useful when you'd rather not specify a --url
or --token
by hand for alternate services.
- If you run
floaty
without a--service <name>
option, vmfloaty will use the first configured service by default. - If keys are missing for a configured service, vmfloaty will attempt to fall back to the top-level values.
This makes it so you can specify things like
user
once at the top of your~/.vmfloaty.yml
.
vmfloaty supports additional backends besides VMPooler. To see a complete list, run floaty service types
. The output of floaty service examples
will show you how to configure each of the supported backends.
Here are the keys that vmfloaty currently supports:
- verbose (Boolean)
- token (String)
- user (String)
- url (String)
- services (String)
- type (String)
- vmpooler_fallback (String)
There is a basic completion script for Bash (and possibly other shells) included with the gem in the extras/completions folder. To activate, that file simply needs to be sourced somehow in your shell profile.
For convenience, the path to the completion script for the currently active version of the gem can be found with the floaty completion
subcommand. This makes it easy to add the completion script to your profile like so:
source $(floaty completion --shell bash)
If you are running on macOS and use Homebrew's bash-completion
formula, you can symlink the script to /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/floaty
and it will be sourced automatically:
ln -s $(floaty completion --shell bash) /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/floaty
There is also tab completion for zsh:
source $(floaty completion --shell zsh)
This cli tool uses the VMPooler API.
vmfloaty providers a Pooler
class that gives users the ability to make requests to VMPooler without having to write their own requests. It also provides an Auth
class for managing VMPooler tokens within your application.
- John McCabe: vmpooler-bitbar
- vmpooler status and management in your menubar with bitbar
- Brian Cain: vagrant-vmpooler
- Use Vagrant to manage your vmpooler instances
PR's are welcome! We always love to see how others think this tool can be made better.
Please wait for multiple code owners to sign off on any notable change.
Follow these steps to publish a new GitHub release, build and push the gem to https://rubygems.org, and build and push a Docker Image to GitHub Container Registry:
- Bump the "VERSION" in
lib/vmfloaty/version.rb
appropriately based on changes inCHANGELOG.md
since the last release. - Run
./release-prep
to updateGemfile.lock
andCHANGELOG.md
. - Commit and push changes to a new branch, then open a pull request against
main
and be sure to add the "maintenance" label. - After the pull request is approved and merged, then navigate to https://github.com/puppetlabs/vmfloaty/actions/workflows/release.yml --> Run workflow --> select "main" branch --> Run workflow. This will publish a GitHub release, build and push the gem to RubyGems, and build and push a Docker Image to GitHub Container Registry.
Special thanks to Brian Cain as he is the original author of vmfloaty! Vast amounts of this code exist thanks to his efforts.