Account creation

1. Send an email to francisco.mendonca@hesge.ch with the following information: each group member name and email
2. You will receive a registration link with a token allowing you to create an account with a 20CHF credit.
3. Follow the link and create your account
4. Validate your email
5. fill-up the form with your information

Create an instance using the ExoScale console

The following tutorial will guide you through the creation of your first instance.

https://community.exoscale.com/documentation/compute/quick-start/

Setting up a local dev. environment

ExoScale developed its own Python library so we can interact with its platform. here is how to install it.

1. Install the ExoScale Python library

   pip install exoscale

2. Open the ExoScale console on the "IAM" page and create creditors

   Choose a name and use an unrestricted key and click on create. Warning: Unrestricted keys are not good practices. Be aware that in a production environment you should prefer restricted keys.

3. Write down your key and your secret
4. Do: 

   export EXOSCALE_API_KEY="EXOxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" EXOSCALE_API_SECRET="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

Resources and code examples

ExoScale Python library documentation

https://exoscale.github.io/python-exoscale/index.html

https://exoscale.github.io/python-exoscale/exoscale.api.compute.html

Code example

Creation of an Instance

instance = exo.compute.create_instance(

     name="web1",

     zone=zone_gva2,

     type=exo.compute.get_instance_type("medium"),

     template=list(

         exo.compute.list_instance_templates(

             zone_gva2,

             "Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit"))[0],

     volume_size=50,

     security_groups=[security_group_web],

)

Get the status of the Instance

for instance in exo.compute.list_instances():

    print("{name} {zone} {ip}".format(

        name=instance.name,

        zone=instance.zone.name,

        ip=instance.ipv4_address,

    ))

Deletion of an Instance

instance.delete()

Pushing to S3 Bucket

bucket= exo.storage.get_bucket("bucket_name")

result = bucket.put_file(local_file_name, file_name_in_bucket)

Reading from s3 bucket

bucket= exo.storage.get_bucket("bucket_name")

file = bucket.get_file(file_name_in_bucket)

More Information

https://www.exoscale.com/syslog/official-python-bindings-for-the-exoscale-api/

If you have any questions, please contact francisco(dot)mendonca(at)hesge(dot)ch