knife-clodo is a knife plugin for Clodo.Ru API.

It uses fog library to interact with API.

Starting from fog-1.1.2, fog’s provider for clodo presented in upstream Git, so installation and setup is as simple as running “gem install knife-clodo” from command line, and adding next lines in your knife’s configuration file:

knife = ‘your@registration.email.net’ # Your email used to authorise in clodo.ru billing. knife = ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’ # Your API key knife = ‘testapi.kh.clodo.ru’ # Domain name of API server.

Next type in command line:

knife clodo server (to list available commands)

knife clodo server list (To list your virtual servers)

knife clodo server start –server=10474 (where 10474 is an ID of virtual server to start)

knife clodo server start –all (that will request to start all of the servers that is not in “is_running” or “is_request” state)

knife clodo server create -d debian6apt -r “recipe” –server-disk=5 –server-memory=256 –server-memory-max=512 -I 541 (where: -d debian6apt - is a bootstrap template to setup newly installed server for your current chef environment At now only Debian 6 with chef’s (0.10) installation with apt-get supported

-r “recipe” - is runlist, that in this example includes default recipe from “vds-performance-tests” cookbook

–server-disk=5 - disk size of 5 gigabytes for newly created server (default is 10Gb)

–server-memory=256 - low limit of memory scaling in megabytes

–server-memory-max=512 - high limit of memory scaling in megabytes

-I 541 - OS image to install (Debian 6 amd64) (OS images list will be added to knife-clodo in next version)

–server-type here is in it’s default value (scale). You can also set it to static. )