VSS Command Line Interface (vss-cli) v0.1.1

VSS-CLI v0.1.1 is available for download via PyPI or GitLab. Latest version includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

+New configuration file with endpoint management and default parameters

In this version, we are introducing a new configuration file in YAML format which is more user friendly than the good old JSON. The YAML configuration file allow users to manually edit the file forgetting about the hassle of the JSON format, however we also provide the commands to enable/disable, update and manage multiple endpoints, for instance:

vss-cli configure
Usage: vss-cli configure [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Configure VSS-CLI options.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  edit     Edit configuration file
  ls       List existing configuration
  mk       Create new configuration or add profile to config file
  set      Update general settings attribute.
  upgrade  Upgrade legacy config.json to yaml

You will notice an error message when trying to execute the vss-cli after upgrading, however, you can avoid it by executing vss-cli configure upgrade which will load the configuration and migrate automatically your previous endpoints to the latest version:

vss-cli compute vm ls

error: VssCliError: Invalid configuration. Please, run "vss-cli configure mk" to initialize configuration, or "vss-cli configure upgrade" to upgrade legacy configuration.

vss-cli configure upgrade

Found 1 endpoints. Migrating to new configuration file.
Successfully loaded 1 endpoints from legacy configuration.

Would you like to upgrade 1 endpoint(s)? This action will
create a new configuration file /home/jm/.vss-cli/config.yaml
with your endpoints in it [y/N]: y

Successfully migrated /home/jm/.vss-cli/config.json

Once migrated, list the existing configuration with vss-cli configure ls:

vss-cli configure ls

NAME       ENDPOINT                           USER    PASS      TOKEN                    SOURCE       DEFAULT
---------  ---------------------------------  ------  --------  -----------------------  -----------  ---------
cloud-api  https://cloud-api.eis.utoronto.ca  jm      ********  eyJhbGciOi...aNF9BG74Ab  config file  /
vss-api    https://vss-api.eis.utoronto.ca                                               config file

To read further about this feature, please refer to the official documentation.

+Improved Windows installation documentation

For more information see VSS-CLI installation

Remember, VSS-CLI documentation is now available in VSS-CLI and the full Change Log is available here.

Upgrade or install PyVSS as follows:

# using vss-cli
vss-cli upgrade 

# upgrade with pip
pip install vss-cli --upgrade

# install
pip install vss-cli

For more information, please refer to the official documentation site.

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+New configuration file with endpoint management and default parameters

+Improved Windows installation documentation

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