{"id":424,"date":"2014-02-14T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/\/2014\/02\/14\/a-wrapper-over-linode-python-api-bindings\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:02:41","slug":"a-wrapper-over-linode-python-api-bindings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/14\/a-wrapper-over-linode-python-api-bindings\/","title":{"rendered":"A wrapper over linode python API bindings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently I’ve been working on automating the nodes creation on our Linode <\/a>infrastructure, in the process I came across the Linode API<\/a> and it’s bindings. Though they were powerful but lacks at some places i.e:<\/p>\n

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  1. In case of Linode CLI, while creating a linode you have to enter the root password so you can’t achieve full automation. Also I was not able to find an option to add private ip to the linode<\/li>\n
  2. In case of Linode API python binding you can’t straight away create a running linode machine.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Recently I’ve launched a new GitHub project, this project is a wrapper over existing python bindings of linode and will try to ease out the working with linode api. Currently using this project you can create a linode with 3 lines of code
    \nfrom linode import Linode <\/span><\/span>
    \nlinode=Linode(‘node_identifier’)<\/span><\/span>
    \nlinode.create() <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    You just need to have a property file,\/data\/linode\/linode.properties:<\/i><\/p>\n

    [DEFAULT]
    \nUBUNTU_DIST=Ubuntu 12.04
    \nKERNEL_LABEL=Latest 64 bit
    \nDATACENTER_LABEL=Dallas
    \nPLAN_ID=1024
    \nROOT_SSH_KEY=
    \nLINODE_API=<\/span><\/div>\n
    <\/div>\n
    \u00a0<\/span>The project is still in development, if someone wants to contribute or have any suggestions you are most welcome.<\/div>\n
    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recently I’ve been working on automating the nodes creation on our Linode infrastructure, in the process I came across the Linode API and it’s bindings. Though they were powerful but lacks at some places i.e: In case of Linode CLI, while creating a linode you have to enter the root password so you can’t achieve … Continue reading “A wrapper over linode python API bindings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171775670,"featured_media":29900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28070474,1892878],"tags":[30871489,69816,185240932,768739308,768739303,768739285],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DevSecOps-1.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfDBOm-6Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171775670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30017,"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/30017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opstree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}