Brightbox have been exceptional since the day that we signed up. Incredibly responsive support and uptime so good that I don't even think about it.
Really love using the Brightbox control panel to manage our cloud servers, ips, firewall and cloud storage. Much easier to use than Amazon AWS. Also customer support is just excellent, with incredible response times.
I’m not really an ops-guy, but the simplicity of the interface and the helpful Brightbox team made me think that I could do it. It’s been 5 years!
We have used Brightbox for the last 8 years and have been grateful for the rock solid infrastructure, expertise and thoughtful support they have provided. Thank you!
# Create a server
$ curl https://api.gb1.brightbox.com/1.0/servers \
-X POST \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer 414028a4b75139fc1b03b51dc294d1b4c591d666' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"image":"img-xxxxx","name":"Test server from API"}'
{
"resource_type" : "server",
"id" : "srv-mcj3x",
"created_at" : "2020-08-03T13:54:21Z",
"console_token" : null,
"started_at" : null,
"cloud_ips" : [],
"snapshots" : [],
"name" : "Test server from API",
...
}$ brightbox servers create -n "Test server from CLI" img-xxxxx
Creating a 1gb.ssd (typ-w0hf9) server with image ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server (img-xxxxx)
id status type zone created_on image_id cloud_ips name
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srv-zx1hd creating 1gb.ssd gb1-b 2020-08-02 img-xxxxx Test server from CLI
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------require 'fog'
compute = Fog::Compute.new(
:provider => :brightbox,
:brightbox_client_id => "cli-xyzab",
:brightbox_secret => "some_secret"
)
zone = compute.zones.first
compute.servers.create(:zone_id => zone.id, :image_id => 'img-s0jtd')func main() {
apiUrl := "https://api.gb1.brightbox.com"
// Setup OAuth2 authentication
conf := clientcredentials.Config{
ClientID: "cli-xxxxx",
ClientSecret: "somesecret",
Scopes: []string{},
TokenURL: apiUrl + "/token",
}
oc := conf.Client(oauth2.NoContext)
// Setup connection to API
client, err := brightbox.NewClient(apiUrl, "", oc)
// Get a list of servers
servers, err := client.Servers()
for _, server := range servers {
fmt.Printf("id:%s name:%s\n", server.Id, server.Name)
}
}$ docker-machine create -d brightbox \
--brightbox-client cli-xyzab \
--brightbox-client-secret some_secret
Running pre-create checks...
Creating machine...
Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
Machine is running, waiting for SSH to be available...
Detecting operating system of created instance...
Provisioning created instance...
Copying certs to the local machine directory...
Copying certs to the remote machine...
Setting Docker configuration on the remote daemon...
To see how to connect Docker to this machine, run: docker-machine env exampleprovider "brightbox" {
version = "~> 1.4"
username = var.user_email_address
password = var.user_secret_password
account = var.account_to_work_on
}$ terraform init
Initializing provider plugins...
- Checking for available provider plugins
- Downloading plugin for provider "brightbox" (terraform-providers/brightbox) 1.4.2...
Terraform has been successfully initialized!
You may now begin working with Terraform. Try running "terraform plan" to see
any changes that are required for your infrastructure. All Terraform commands
should now work.
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