I’ve been trying different SmartOS images with Joyent for some time now, but always did everything from the Dashboard.
Joyent’s wonderful dashboard
Most users will never need anything else: the Joyent’s dashboard is incredible – simple yet powerful, providing vital views of your instances and your billing. Wish there was a tool like this for AWS!
Being a developer though, you’ll probably want to give Joyent’s CloudAPI a try. Since I’m not much of a developer, I settled on the NodeJS based CLI tools.
Install Joyent CLI
You need to get a nodejs installed in your environment, and on top of it get the Smart DataCenter module from Joyent:
npm install -g smartdc
There’s at least three variables to configure so that you can use the CLI, SDC_URL reflects the region (DC) you plan on using, that’s Amsterdam for me in Europe. SDC_ACCOUNT is your username, and SDC_KEY_ID is the key you’ll need to get from your Joyent Dashboard:
export SDC_ACCOUNT=greysexport SDC_KEY_ID="aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:gg:hh:ii:jj:kk:ll:mm:nn:oo:pp"
List machines
sdc-listmachines is the command you’ll need to list machines.
And once you’re clear on which machine you’d like to inspect, you can use sdc-getmachine with its UUID to confirm all the necessary details about the machine: IPs and hardware configuration, state and access keys, etc.
Here’s how it should look:
greys$ sdc-getmachine d8288fe0-1d88-ef64-XXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYY{"id": "d8288fe0-1d88-ef64-XXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYY","name": "wp","type": "smartmachine","state": "stopped","image": "70f1b13e-0f85-XXXX-a009-YYYYYYYYYYYY","ips": ["10.224.XXX.YYY","37.153.AAA.BBB"],"memory": 256,"disk": 6144,"metadata": {"root_authorized_keys": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC0lTV5song1ZXSFBdkhCH7brvVYzcV0HPuU/CpRiczLTc5Epox8a+mCza/UWwdCg69HTUGGUEk6CXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY [email protected]\n"},"tags": {},"created": "2015-10-09T18:58:18.264Z","updated": "2016-01-11T13:27:44.000Z","networks": ["6f996828-b838-11e2-XXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYY","0f63aea2-83ee-4c50-XXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYY"],"dataset": "sdc:sdc:wordpress:15.1.1","primaryIp": "37.153.XXX.YYY","firewall_enabled": false,"compute_node": "44454c4c-4e00-1031-XXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYY","package": "t4-standard-256M"}Start and stop a machine with Joyent
sdc-startmachine and sdc-stopmachine are the commands which take UUID, and you can use the sdc-getmachine to track progress.
IMPORTANT: if you jus stop your Joyent machine, billing will still be happening unless and until destroy the machine like this:
sdc-deletemachine d8288fe0-1d88-ef64-XXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYY