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API Tools & Integrations

# Create a server
$ curl https://api.gb1.brightbox.com/1.0/servers \
    -X POST \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer 414028a4b75139fc1b03b51dc294d1b4c591d666' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"image":"img-xxxxx","name":"Test server from API"}'

{
   "resource_type" : "server",
   "id" : "srv-mcj3x",
   "created_at" : "2020-08-03T13:54:21Z",
   "console_token" : null,
   "started_at" : null,
   "cloud_ips" : [],
   "snapshots" : [],
   "name" : "Test server from API",
   ...
}

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$ brightbox servers create -n "Test server from CLI" img-xxxxx

Creating a 1gb.ssd (typ-w0hf9) server with image ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server (img-xxxxx)

 id         status    type     zone   created_on  image_id   cloud_ips  name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 srv-zx1hd  creating  1gb.ssd  gb1-b  2020-08-02  img-xxxxx             Test server from CLI
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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require 'fog'

compute = Fog::Compute.new(
  :provider => :brightbox,
  :brightbox_client_id => "cli-xyzab",
  :brightbox_secret => "some_secret"
)

zone = compute.zones.first
compute.servers.create(:zone_id => zone.id, :image_id => 'img-s0jtd')

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func main() {
        apiUrl := "https://api.gb1.brightbox.com"

        // Setup OAuth2 authentication
        conf := clientcredentials.Config{
                ClientID:     "cli-xxxxx",
                ClientSecret: "somesecret",
                Scopes:       []string{},
                TokenURL:     apiUrl + "/token",
        }
        oc := conf.Client(oauth2.NoContext)
    
        // Setup connection to API
        client, err := brightbox.NewClient(apiUrl, "", oc)

        // Get a list of servers
        servers, err := client.Servers()
        for _, server := range servers {
                fmt.Printf("id:%s name:%s\n", server.Id, server.Name)
        }
}

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$ docker-machine create -d brightbox \
    --brightbox-client cli-xyzab \
    --brightbox-client-secret some_secret

Running pre-create checks...
Creating machine...
Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
Machine is running, waiting for SSH to be available...
Detecting operating system of created instance...
Provisioning created instance...
Copying certs to the local machine directory...
Copying certs to the remote machine...
Setting Docker configuration on the remote daemon...
To see how to connect Docker to this machine, run: docker-machine env example

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terraform {
  required_providers {
    brightbox = {
      source  = "brightbox/brightbox"
      version = "~> 3.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "brightbox" {
  username = var.user_email_address
  password = var.user_secret_password
  account = var.account_to_work_on
}

$ terraform init

Initializing the backend...

Initializing provider plugins...
- Finding brightbox/brightbox versions matching "~> 3.0"...
- Installing brightbox/brightbox v3.4.3...
- Installed brightbox/brightbox v3.4.3 (signed by a HashiCorp partner, key ID 86A01C78D276AC7C)

Partner and community providers are signed by their developers.
If you'd like to know more about provider signing, you can read about it here:
https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/plugins/signing.html

Terraform has been successfully initialized!

...

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apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: brightbox-cluster-autoscaler
  name: release-brightbox-cluster-autoscaler
  namespace: kube-system
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app.kubernetes.io/name: brightbox-cluster-autoscaler
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app.kubernetes.io/name: brightbox-cluster-autoscaler
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: brightbox-cluster-autoscaler
        image: brightbox/cluster-autoscaler-brightbox:1.32.2
        command:
        - ./cluster-autoscaler
        - --cloud-provider=brightbox
        - --namespace=kube-system
        - --cluster-name=example.cluster.local
        - --logtostderr=true
        - --skip-nodes-with-local-storage=true
        - --stderrthreshold=info
        - --v=2
        envFrom:
        - secretRef:
            name: brightbox-credentials
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8085
          protocol: TCP

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