(Archived) root360 Cloud Management CLI Suite (r3)

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In order to provide a high degree on management capabilities to you we maintain a command line tool suite. To have a short and handy abbreviation on the command line we named it after our internal short name for root360, r3.

In the following the tool suites current capabilities are shown in respective sections.

If you like to have r3 extended or experience any problems, please feel free to come back to us after consulting this documentation.

Scope of the cloud management CLI suite

The cloud management CLI suite r3 is only available on the Bastion Host/Jump-Server of your environment. It is not available on other instances like Web-Servers. Other independently provided tools may be available on other kinds of systems, but are out of scope.

r3's purpose is:

to ease manual tasks for developers or other representatives of our customers with command line access
to allow integration with customer CI/CD tools for process automation

Proceedings on Pre-r3 scripts and tools

Before we started working on the r3 suite we provided a number of tools independently. The most noteworthy would probably be deploy.py, update-ecs-service.py, and ec2-instance-ip.sh. All these tools are going to be discontinued and removed.

A comprehensive list of the affected tools can be found in the following. This list also gives you details on the further proceedings of each of those tools. We will update this list and inform all customers in advance, if any changes are planned!

The usage of the tools is discouraged, but you don't have to fear that they will go without further notice or will stop working!

Script name	Purpose	Further proceeding

Script name	Purpose	Further proceeding
deploy.py	Deploy applications to instances	Feature freeze, Removal scheduled for 28th September 2018
ec2-instance-ip.sh	Give overview about ec2 instances	Feature freeze, Removal not scheduled
update-ecs-service.py	Deploy docker containers to ECS-integrated docker clusters	Feature freeze, Removal scheduled for 28th September 2018
ecs-instance-list.py	List properties and distribution of containers over container hosts	Feature freeze, Removal not scheduled
show-ecs-service-status.py	Gather details about deployments, events and state	Feature freeze, Removal not scheduled
varnish-flush.sh	Flush object caches of varnish web accelerators	Feature freeze, Removal not scheduled
memcache-flush.py	Flush memcached	Feature freeze, Removal not scheduled
rds-snapshot.sh	Create Backup of MySQL database servers	Feature freeze, Removal not scheduled

General usage information

As shown in the code blocks below, you can invoke the tool suite by just typing the command r3 in console.

From there you can get the information, which capabilities it provides.

The list of available services can differ between environments!

From the example you can see, that for the example environment operations for only 2 services are available (instance and db).

How to invoke the cli tool?

USER@JUMPSERVER:~$ r3
usage: r3
          {db,instance}
          [kwargs [kwargs ...]]
r3: error: the following arguments are required: cmd

You can obtain more detailed information for each specific service like shown in the following.

How to show help on specific service?

USER@JUMPSERVER:~$ r3 db -h

#Response
Manage Databases on root360 Cloud Platform

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Command Overview:
  {snapshot,list,restore,show,destroy}
    snapshot            Initiate Snapshot Creation for a Database Servers
    list                List Database Servers and Snapshots for this
                        Environment.
    restore             Create a Restore Database Server from a Snapshot.
    show                Show Details for Snapshots/Database Servers of this
                        Environment.
    destroy             Destroy Restore-Snapshots/Database Servers of this
                        Environment.

Furthermore specific information for available operations of each service can be obtained like shown below.

How to show details on available operations on a service?

USER@JUMPSERVER:~$ r3 db restore -h

#Response
Create a Restore Database Server from a Snapshot.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --loglevel {INFO,DEBUG,ERROR}
                        Define Loglevel for Execution (default: INFO)

  --env ENVIRONMENT, --environment ENVIRONMENT
                        The Short Name of the desired Environment, e.g test,
                        prod (default: this environment).
  snapshot_id           SnapshotIdentifier of a Snapshot to restore a Database
                        Server from.
  --db-instance-class INSTANCE_CLASS
                        DB instance class of restore database

Shortcuts/Aliases

In order to have fast access to the most important functions the command line suite supports some shortcuts, called Aliases.

For example r3 discover is a shortcut for r3 env discover. The former takes the same arguments as the later. To get used to the shortcuts you can use the described help-functions shown above.

The aliases can be differentiated from the services easily. all Aliases are verbs, whilst all services are named by nouns.

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