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API Tools & Integrations

# Create a server
$ curl https://api.gb1.brightbox.com/1.0/servers \
    -X POST \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer 414028a4b75139fc1b03b51dc294d1b4c591d666' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"image":"img-xxxxx","name":"Test server from API"}'

{
   "resource_type" : "server",
   "id" : "srv-mcj3x",
   "created_at" : "2020-08-03T13:54:21Z",
   "console_token" : null,
   "started_at" : null,
   "cloud_ips" : [],
   "snapshots" : [],
   "name" : "Test server from API",
   ...
}

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$ brightbox servers create -n "Test server from CLI" img-xxxxx

Creating a 1gb.ssd (typ-w0hf9) server with image ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server (img-xxxxx)

 id         status    type     zone   created_on  image_id   cloud_ips  name
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 srv-zx1hd  creating  1gb.ssd  gb1-b  2020-08-02  img-xxxxx             Test server from CLI
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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require 'fog'

compute = Fog::Compute.new(
  :provider => :brightbox,
  :brightbox_client_id => "cli-xyzab",
  :brightbox_secret => "some_secret"
)

zone = compute.zones.first
compute.servers.create(:zone_id => zone.id, :image_id => 'img-s0jtd')

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func main() {
        apiUrl := "https://api.gb1.brightbox.com"

        // Setup OAuth2 authentication
        conf := clientcredentials.Config{
                ClientID:     "cli-xxxxx",
                ClientSecret: "somesecret",
                Scopes:       []string{},
                TokenURL:     apiUrl + "/token",
        }
        oc := conf.Client(oauth2.NoContext)
    
        // Setup connection to API
        client, err := brightbox.NewClient(apiUrl, "", oc)

        // Get a list of servers
        servers, err := client.Servers()
        for _, server := range servers {
                fmt.Printf("id:%s name:%s\n", server.Id, server.Name)
        }
}

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$ docker-machine create -d brightbox \
    --brightbox-client cli-xyzab \
    --brightbox-client-secret some_secret

Running pre-create checks...
Creating machine...
Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
Machine is running, waiting for SSH to be available...
Detecting operating system of created instance...
Provisioning created instance...
Copying certs to the local machine directory...
Copying certs to the remote machine...
Setting Docker configuration on the remote daemon...
To see how to connect Docker to this machine, run: docker-machine env example

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provider "brightbox" {
  version = "~> 1.4"
  username = var.user_email_address
  password = var.user_secret_password
  account = var.account_to_work_on
}

$ terraform init

Initializing provider plugins...
- Checking for available provider plugins
- Downloading plugin for provider "brightbox" (terraform-providers/brightbox) 1.4.2...

Terraform has been successfully initialized!

You may now begin working with Terraform. Try running "terraform plan" to see
any changes that are required for your infrastructure. All Terraform commands
should now work.
...

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