Creating Server Images Using Python

If you want to use Python to to create a server image, use this as your inspiration:

#!/usr/bin/python

import base64
import urllib
import httplib
import json
import os
from urlparse import urlparse

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# HTTP connection #2

srvID = 1               # server ID number
imgName = "tornado-app-server"
metaDict = {"version": "1.0.0", "creator": "joe"}

url2 = apiurlt[1]
params2 = urllib.urlencode(json.dumps({"createImage": {"name": imgName, "metadata": metaDict}}))
headers2 = { "X-Auth-Token":apitoken, "Content-type":"application/json" }

if (usehttps == True):
    conn2 = httplib.HTTPSConnection(url2, key_file='../cert/priv.pem', cert_file='../cert/srv_test.crt')
else:
    conn2 = httplib.HTTPConnection(url2)

conn2.request("POST", "%s/servers/%s/action" % (apiurlt[2], srvID), params2, headers2)

# HTTP response #2

response2 = conn2.getresponse()
data2 = response2.read()
conn2.close()