Ruby OpenNebula Cloud API 3.0

This page contains the OpenNebula Cloud API Specification for Ruby. It has been designed as a wrapper for the XML-RPC methods, with some basic helpers. This means that you should be familiar with the XML-RPC API and the XML formats returned by the OpenNebula core. As stated in the XML-RPC documentation, you can download the XML Schemas (XSD) here.

API Documentation

You can consult the doc online.

Usage

You can use the Ruby OCA included in the OpenNebula distribution by adding the OpenNebula Ruby library path to the search path:

##############################################################################
# Environment Configuration
##############################################################################
ONE_LOCATION=ENV["ONE_LOCATION"]

if !ONE_LOCATION
    RUBY_LIB_LOCATION="/usr/lib/one/ruby"
else
    RUBY_LIB_LOCATION=ONE_LOCATION+"/lib/ruby"
end

$: << RUBY_LIB_LOCATION

##############################################################################
# Required libraries
##############################################################################
require 'OpenNebula'

Code Sample

This is a small code snippet. As you can see, the code flow would be as follows:

Create a new Client, setting up the authorization string. You only need to create it once.
Get the VirtualMachine pool that contains the VirtualMachines owned by this User.
You can perform “actions” over these objects right away, like myVNet.delete();. In this example all the VirtualMachines will be shut down.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
##############################################################################
# Environment Configuration
##############################################################################
ONE_LOCATION=ENV["ONE_LOCATION"]
 
if !ONE_LOCATION
    RUBY_LIB_LOCATION="/usr/lib/one/ruby"
else
    RUBY_LIB_LOCATION=ONE_LOCATION+"/lib/ruby"
end
 
$: << RUBY_LIB_LOCATION
 
##############################################################################
# Required libraries
##############################################################################
require 'OpenNebula'
 
include OpenNebula
 
# OpenNebula credentials
CREDENTIALS = "oneuser:onepass"
# XML_RPC endpoint where OpenNebula is listening
ENDPOINT    = "http://localhost:2633/RPC2"
 
client = Client.new(CREDENTIALS, ENDPOINT)
 
vm_pool = VirtualMachinePool.new(client, -1)
 
rc = vm_pool.info
if OpenNebula.is_error?(rc)
     puts rc.message
     exit -1
end
 
vm_pool.each do |vm|
     rc = vm.shutdown
     if OpenNebula.is_error?(rc)
          puts "Virtual Machine #{vm.id}: #{rc.message}"
     else
          puts "Virtual Machine #{vm.id}: Shutting down"
     end
end
 
exit 0