Create Cloud Servers via API and customize it via SSH

create-cs-and-customize.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@chmouel.com>
import os
import cloudservers
from subprocess import call

API_USER=""
API_KEY=""
IMAGE_NAME=""
IMAGE_FLAVOUR_ID=1
IMAGE_TYPE=69

def check_image(cnx, server_id):
    while cnx.servers.get(server_id).status != "ACTIVE":
        print ". ",
        if cnx.servers.get(server_id).status == "ACTIVE":
            return
    
cnx = cloudservers.CloudServers(os.environ['RCLOUD_API_USER'],
                                os.environ['RCLOUD_API_KEY'])
print "Creating Image.", 
cstype = cnx.servers.create(image=IMAGE_TYPE,
                            flavor=IMAGE_FLAVOUR_ID,
                            name=IMAGE_NAME,
                            files={'/root/.ssh/authorized_keys' : open(os.path.expanduser("~/.ssh/id_rsa"), 'r')})


check_image(cnx, cstype.id)
print "done."


print "customizing it..."
public_ip=cstype.public_ip

ssh_options = ['-q', '-t', '-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null']
call('ssh %s root@%s "sudo apt-get -y install curl  && curl http://www.chmouel.com/pub/bootstrap.sh|sh -"' % (" ".join(ssh_options), public_ip), shell=True)

print "done"