Client_control

This application has been created to create and mange cloud vms through nomad. Its it is a cli application that creates and destroys instances, along with setting up cloudflare DNS.

To use

To be able to run this application the terminal running it needs to be set up:

For packer the client_id and client_secret needs to be exported as env vars

HCP_CLIENT_ID=
HCP_CLIENT_SECRET=

For GCP your terminal needs to be authenticated with google, the easyest way to do this is with.

gcloud login

You then need to define a config. copy config.json.example as config.json and fill out the required infomation in it.

commands

To get the most up to date commands run client_control -h

start

Will start the desired Instance

Usage: client_control start [flags]

Flags: -c, --config string location of config file (default "config.json") -h, --help help for start -m, --machine_type string The machine_type to use (default "e2-standard-2") -n, --name string name to give the instance (default "test") -l, --node_pool string The node_pool to deploy the client in -i, --packer_channel string packer channel to pull from (default "live") -p, --provider string cloud provider to use (GCP) (default "GCP")

stop

Will stop the desired Instance

Usage: client_control stop [flags]

Flags: -c, --config string location of config file (default "config.json") -h, --help help for stop -n, --name string name to give the instance (default "test") -p, --provider string cloud provider to use (GCP) (default "GCP")

get

Will return infomation about the running instance

Usage: client_control get [flags]

Flags: -c, --config string location of config file (default "config.json") -h, --help help for get -n, --name string name to give the instance (default "test") -p, --provider string cloud provider to use (GCP) (default "GCP")

autostop

Will run the instance untill it passes the given time (and/or) date. If the time is before the current time, it will be the next day it stops

Usage: client_control autostop [flags]

Flags: -d, --autostopdate string date to stop the server -t, --autostoptime string time to stop the server (default "00:00") -c, --config string location of config file (default "config.json") -h, --help help for autostop -n, --name string name to give the instance (default "test") -p, --provider string cloud provider to use (GCP) (default "GCP")