alibaba-python-sdk-examples

Feature

• ECS

Pre-requesteries

Install pip

There mutliple ways to install pip. The easier being:

$ wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
Saving to: ‘get-pip.py’

$ sudo python get-pip.py
Collecting pip
...
Installing collected packages: pip, wheel
...
Successfully installed pip-9.0.1 wheel-0.30.0

$ pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

You can refer to the official page for alternative installation procedure

Create SDK Key on Alibaba Cloud

Notes

This repository is only for the people using the Public Cloud of Alibaba Cloud. For further assistance on the Private Cloud, please refer to the official documentation

We will create the access key ID and access key secret necessary to call the Open API used by Alibaba Cloud SDK.

Access key creation

Visit your Alibaba Cloud console at this URL: https://home.console.aliyun.com/

Once logged in, ALL THE SCREENS

Install Alibaba Cloud Python SDK(s)

You need to install the aliyuncli first in order to use the Python SDK from command line

$ sudo pip install aliyuncli
Collecting aliyuncli
...
Installing collected packages: colorama, jmespath, aliyuncli
...
Successfully installed aliyuncli-2.1.9 colorama-0.3.3 jmespath-0.7.1

Now you can install each SDK via pip using the following command:

$ sudo pip install [ sdk-name ]

[ sdk-name ] used in this repository

• aliyun-python-sdk-ecs

You can refer to the official page for other SDK(s)

Configure Alibaba Cloud Python SDK(s)

After creating the access key and access secret, you may configure aliyuncli: :

$ aliyuncli configure
Aliyun Access Key ID [None]: <Your aliyun access key id>
Aliyun Access Key Secret [None]: <Your aliyun access key secret>
Default Region Id [None]: <your preferred region>
Default output format [None]: <your proferred output-format>

Regions Available:

• cn-qingdao
• cn-beijing
• cn-zhangjiakou
• cn-hangzhou
• cn-shanghai
• cn-shenzhen
• cn-hongkong
• ap-northeast-1
• ap-southeast-1
• ap-southeast-2
• us-east-1
• us-west-1
• me-east-1
• eu-central-1

Alternatively you can query them later on with the following command:

$ aliyuncli ecs DescribeRegions --output json --filter Regions.Region[*].RegionId

Output Format Available:

• table
• JSON
• text