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VSS Command Line Interface (vss-cli) v0.12.0🎉

VSS Command Line Interface (vss-cli) v0.12.0🎉

By JM Lopez
Apr 12, 2021
2 min

VSS-CLI v0.12.0 is available for download via PyPI or GitLab. Latest version includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

New Features

compute contentlib: content library integration (#403)

Commands:

  • compute contentlib iso ls

  • compute contentlib vm ls

  • compute contentlib ovf ls

Browse the content library with the following commands:

Usage: vss-cli compute contentlib [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]... Manage Manage Content Library Items. Virtual Machine templates, OVF, ISO and other items. Options: --help Show this message and exit. Commands: iso Browse current ISO images ovf Browse current OVF images vm Browse Virtual Machine Templates

compute vm mk from-clib: deploy vm from content library (#405)

Commands:

  • compute vm mk from-clib

The following example shows how to deploy an ovf from the content library injecting a cloud-init descriptor and network-config configuration file for customizing the operating system:

Improvements

compute vm mk from-clone: add --snapshot option to clone from given snapshot state (#404)

Commands:

  • compute vm mk from-clone --snapshot

Allow clone to be sourced by a given snapshot:

core: add --webdav-server option to cli, webdav_server to configuration file and VSS_WEBDVA_SERVER (#406)

Commands:

  • core

Allow to specify an alternate webdav-server to manage vskey-stor files:

# command option vss-cli --webdav-server https://vskey-stor-vpn.eis.utoronto.ca stor ls # env variable export VSS_WEBDAV_SERVER=https://vskey-stor-vpn.eis.utoronto.ca vss-cli stor ls # configuration file vss-cli configure set webdav_server https://vskey-stor-vpn.eis.utoronto.ca vss-cli stor ls

core: update pyvss from v0.17.2 to v0.18.1 (#404)

Bug Fixes

compute vm mk from-images: exception when user-data is not provided and is optional (#401)

core: --filter-by ignoring filter with operators (#407)

Upgrade

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