Announcing public API for TurnKey Hub

More power, control, flexibility and automation of cloud servers.

Alan Kay once said: "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible". We live by those words, and I think we've done a pretty good job up until now.

The Hub makes launching and managing instances on Amazon EC2 really simple, but the one thing that has been missing is a solution to make complex things possible - i.e., programmatic control.

Which brings me to todays announcement of the TurnKey Hub API, and HubTools - Python API bindings and CLI tools.

Some examples to wet your appetite:

Launch a new TurnKey Core appliance in the cloud:

$ hub-launch core

And of course, preseeding is supported, for example:

$ hub-launch lamp --db-pass=foobar

But wait, there's more. Lets say you are developing a new Wordpress website in a local VM which is backed up using TKLBAM, with a backup ID of 2. Restoring the backup to a new cloud server is as simple as:

$ hub-launch 2

So how do you know what backups you have available? Which appliances are available and their preseeding options? The status and related information of your cloud servers?

It's easy:

hub-list-backups
hub-list-appliances
hub-list-servers

If the included CLI tools aren't enough and you need more power, use the Python bindings to develop your own code. It's really simple.

For example, lets say I wanted to launch 10 TKL Core servers:

for i in range(1, 11):
    hub.servers.launch("core", label="TurnKey Core %s" % i)

There is so much you can do with HubTools, it's only limited to your imagination.

The full documentation is available here. If you don't have a free Hub account yet, get one here.