Automatically create multiple node via linode-cli

linodecreate

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# usage:
#     linodecreate NUM
#
# NUM is the number of node you want to create

genpassword() {
    PASS=$( tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 5 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )
    echo -n "prefix-$PASS"
}

if [[ "$@" =~ ^[1-9]+[0-9]*$ ]]; then
    RANGE=$( seq 1 "$@" )
else
    echo "wrong number"
    exit 255
fi

for N in $RANGE; do
    PASS="$( genpassword )"
    IP=$( linode-cli linodes create --json --tag AUTO_CREATED --root_pass "${PASS}" | jq -r  '.[0].ipv4[0]' )

    echo -e "${IP} \t ${PASS}"
done