A small (and very incomplete) ssh wrapper, to ssh your servers in the Public Cloud of dimensiodata.com easily via their server-name:

florianb$ dsh connect my-host
dsh: Server "my-host" found, opening secure shell to 33a0:47c0:110:1211:468:ac2d:62de:191f.
root@2a00:33a0:47c0:110:1211:468:ac2d:62de:191f's password: *

$ dsh connect SERVERNAME -r REGION -o ORGANIZATION -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -s SHELL_USER SSH-OPTIONS

Connects to the DimensionData-API at the specified REGION with the ORGANIZATION-id, USERNAME and PASSWORD to fetch all servers matching to SERVERNAME.

If a matching server is found, its primary ipv6-address is taken to open a ssh-connection with the provided SHELL_USER.

If the SHELL_USER is omitted, the connection will be established as root.

Additional options for the ssh-client may be defined by appending them to the dsh-command:

  $ dsh connect my-server -s root -v

The example above passes the verbose-option (-v) to ssh.

$ dsh list -r REGION -o ORGANIZATION -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD

Connects to the DimensionData-API at the specified Region with the ORGANIZATION-id, USERNAME and PASSWORD to fetch a list of all servers at the given region.

If the API-call is successful the returned servernames will be printed, followed by their operating system, their current state and their primary ipv6-address:

super-server (UBUNTU12/64) - NORMAL ipv6: 1234:1234:123:1234:1234:1234:123:1234 1 server/s in total.

The region-code is expanded to the subdomain api-REGION, f.e. the region-code eu is expanded to https://api-eu.dimensiondata.com.

According to the API-documentation the following region-codes will be accepted by the API:

 na: North America
 eu: Europe (EU)
 au: Australia (AU)
 mea: Africa (AF)
 ap: Asia Pacific (AP)
 latam: South America (SA)
 canada: Canada(CA)

Dimension-Shell searches in your home-directory for dsh.yml, this file may contain your default settings for any command-options. Any options defined in the config file may be omitted in the command-line-invocation.

If any option is defined in the config file and at command-line, the corresponding command-line option overrides the config file.

:username: api_server
:region: eu
:organization: 12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012
:password: "api_server123"
:shell_user: root

The given user needs only read-permissions to access the api.

Install it via Rubygems.org:

$ gem install dimension_shell

File an issue - pull-requests are welcome.