#How to use cs, the Exoscale API client
Devops engineers like to automate things. Once you'll start programming your infrastructure with Exoscale services, you will quickly need to create scripts to test, monitor and automate actions on your virtual machines. Knowing this, the exoscale team created a tool called cs, which allows to interact directly with their cloudstack API through the command line or a script.
As the cloudstack API allows for numerous possibilities, this document narrows it to a selection of commands available on Exoscale API. This list is non exhaustive but should help you to get started in most cases.
If you want to go further, the exhaustive list of the API calls you can use with your Exoscale account is documented here.
#Requirements