Chef Knife Plugin for Bare Metal Cloud

Chef Knife plugin for provisioning and managing Bare Metal Cloud resources.

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Requirements

• Bare Metal Cloud account
• Ruby

Creating a Bare Metal Cloud account

1. Go to the Bare Metal Cloud signup page.
2. Follow the prompts to set up your account.
3. Use your credentials to log in to Bare Metal Cloud portal.

▶️ Video tutorial: How to Create a Bare Metal Cloud Account

▶️ Video tutorial: Introduction to Bare Metal Cloud

Installing the plugin

The plugin is available as a Ruby gem and you can install it with:

gem install knife-bmc

Authentication

You need to create a configuration file called config.yaml and save it in the user home directory. This file is used to authenticate access to your Bare Metal Cloud resources.

In your home directory, create a directory .pnap and a config.yaml file inside it. The file needs to contain only two lines of code:

clientId: <enter your client id>
clientSecret: <enter your client secret>

To get the values for the clientId and clientSecret, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Bare Metal Cloud portal.
2. On the left side menu, click on API Credentials.
3. Click the Create Credentials button.
4. Fill in the Name and Description fields, select the permissions scope and click Create.
5. In the table, click on Actions and select View Credentials from the dropdown.
6. Copy the values from the Client ID and Client Secret fields into your config.yaml file.

Running the plugin with Knife

If the gem has been installed on your system, it should already be available as a knife subcommand:

knife bmc server create (OPTIONS) HOSTNAME
knife bmc server delete (OPTIONS) SERVER_LIST
knife bmc server get (OPTIONS) SERVER_LIST
knife bmc server list (OPTIONS)
knife bmc server poweroff (OPTIONS) SERVER_LIST
knife bmc server poweron (OPTIONS) SERVER_LIST
knife bmc server reboot (OPTIONS) SERVER_LIST
knife bmc server reset (OPTIONS) SERVER_ID_LIST
knife bmc server shutdown (OPTIONS) SERVER_LIST
knife bmc sshkey create (OPTIONS) KEYFILE
knife bmc sshkey delete (OPTIONS)
knife bmc sshkey list

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Resources

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Documentation

• API documentation

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