Linode CLI

https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/28/linode-cli/

by zeitg3ist • 12 years ago

103 26 12 years ago

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slashdotdash• 12 years ago

Linode CLI is a simple command-line interface to the Linode platform.

https://github.com/linode/cli

theOnliest• 12 years ago

Why not also release to CPAN? It would make managing the dependencies easier for those not installing the packages from homebrew/apt.

kimmel• 12 years ago

Lets not forget the benefit of the automated test army known as CPAN Testers. You release to CPAN they test it across many versions of each major operating system Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, etc...

draegtun• 12 years ago

It definitely would be beneficial if it were on CPAN. However they would need to add tests to the repo first :)

riobard• 12 years ago

Linode's shortest billing cycle is one month. If I use the CLI to create a linode and do something computation then delete it, am I still billed for a full month?

citricsquid2• 12 years ago

Linode charges monthly, but they bill daily and credit an account when a linode is cancelled. If you create a 1GB linode on February 1st they will charge you $20, if you then destroy that linode on February 10th they will credit your account with the remaining full days (17) working out at ~$12 account credit.

Also worth noting that if you deploy a linode near the end of a month they will count up the next month and bill all at once, for example if you purchased a linode on the 25th of February they would charge you for the remainder of February and March at once.

thejosh3• 12 years ago

Yes, but it's kind of silly that they charge you upfront for the entire month when you might only need something for a couple of hours.

Their whole pricing needs a per-hour option, but I guess they are doing well enough off people who use their etnrei virtual machines 24x7.

thezach• 12 years ago

Linode... something that should of died long ago after the first security breach.

D9u• 12 years ago

Why can't they just give SSH access into a chroot'd environment, or something like that? I hate having to add more stuff to address needs which are already met by commonly used software. (SSH client)

I guess that's why I use VPS instead of Linode.

kej• 12 years ago

They used to offer a Linode console that is exactly what you describe. Not sure if they still do, I've moved on to other services.

thaumaturgy• 12 years ago

Because one little mistake -- one error in their configuration, one sysadmin cockup at some point in the future, one bug in the software stack they use to provide such a thing -- and someone could get frightening amounts of access to the Linode network.

I like this a lot better.

x0054• 12 years ago

The Linode CLI is to manage the VPS node, not to manage your server directly. With Linode CLI you can resize, shutdown, boot up, hard reset, and mirror your VPS. It's basically all the controls you would have from your VPS control panel, but in a CLI.

suhailpatel• 12 years ago

Unless i'm missing something, Linode is a VPS. They give you full SSH access to a VPS just like every other VPS provider does. This tool is just so you don't have to use the web UI to provision a new VPS Linode Server and can instead use the command line

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