Backends¶
With mist you can handle multiple machines on multiple providers from one interface, the mist.io service. In order to do so, the very first thing to do when using mist.io is to ensure that you have added your backends. After doing that you’ll be able to provision, monitor and in general handle all your machines on all those providers.
Supported Providers¶
Before you add a new backend, you’ll find it useful to see a list of all the providers that mist.io supports:
mist list-providers
Output:
Other Server bare_metal
Azure azure
EC2 ec2 Tokyo ec2_ap_northeast
EC2 ec2 Singapore ec2_ap_southeast
EC2 ec2 Sydney ec2_ap_southeast_2
EC2 ec2 Ireland ec2_eu_west
EC2 ec2 Sao Paulo ec2_sa_east
EC2 ec2 N. Virginia ec2_us_east
EC2 ec2 N. California ec2_us_west
EC2 ec2 Oregon ec2_us_west_oregon
Google Compute Engine gce
NephoScale nephoscale
DigitalOcean digitalocean
Linode linode
OpenStack openstack
Rackspace rackspace Dallas dfw
Rackspace rackspace Chicago ord
Rackspace rackspace N. Virginia iad
Rackspace rackspace London lon
Rackspace rackspace Sydney syd
Rackspace rackspace Hong Kong hkg
Rackspace rackspace US-First Gen rackspace_first_gen:us
Rackspace rackspace UK-First Gen rackspace_first_gen:uk
SoftLayer softlayer
HP Helion Cloud hpcloud US West region-a.geo-1
HP Helion Cloud hpcloud US East region-b.geo-1
Docker docker
VMware vCloud vcloud
Indonesian Cloud indonesian_vcloud
KVM (via libvirt) libvirt
Note
With every list action, you can have the output in a more pretty format by providing the --pretty flag.
For example, mist list-providers --pretty will return this output:
+-----------------------+-------------------+---------------+------------------------+
| Provider | Provider ID | Region | Region ID |
+-----------------------+-------------------+---------------+------------------------+
| Other Server | bare_metal | - | - |
| Azure | azure | - | - |
| EC2 | ec2 | Tokyo | ec2_ap_northeast |
| EC2 | ec2 | Singapore | ec2_ap_southeast |
| EC2 | ec2 | Sydney | ec2_ap_southeast_2 |
| EC2 | ec2 | Ireland | ec2_eu_west |
| EC2 | ec2 | Sao Paulo | ec2_sa_east |
| EC2 | ec2 | N. Virginia | ec2_us_east |
| EC2 | ec2 | N. California | ec2_us_west |
| EC2 | ec2 | Oregon | ec2_us_west_oregon |
| Google Compute Engine | gce | - | - |
| NephoScale | nephoscale | - | - |
| DigitalOcean | digitalocean | - | - |
| Linode | linode | - | - |
| OpenStack | openstack | - | - |
| Rackspace | rackspace | Dallas | dfw |
| Rackspace | rackspace | Chicago | ord |
| Rackspace | rackspace | N. Virginia | iad |
| Rackspace | rackspace | London | lon |
| Rackspace | rackspace | Sydney | syd |
| Rackspace | rackspace | Hong Kong | hkg |
| Rackspace | rackspace | US-First Gen | rackspace_first_gen:us |
| Rackspace | rackspace | UK-First Gen | rackspace_first_gen:uk |
| SoftLayer | softlayer | - | - |
| HP Helion Cloud | hpcloud | US West | region-a.geo-1 |
| HP Helion Cloud | hpcloud | US East | region-b.geo-1 |
| Docker | docker | - | - |
| VMware vCloud | vcloud | - | - |
| Indonesian Cloud | indonesian_vcloud | - | - |
| KVM (via libvirt) | libvirt | - | - |
+-----------------------+-------------------+---------------+------------------------+
From here on you’ll need your desired provider’s id in order to use it when adding a new backend.
Backend Actions¶
Add an EC2 backend:
mist add-backend --provider ec2 --region ec2_ap_northeast --ec2-api-key AKIAHKIB7OIJCX7YLIO3JA --ec2-api-secret knbkGJKHG9gjhUuhgfjtiu987
Add a Rackspace backend:
mist add-backend --provider rackspace --region iad --rackspace-username my_username --rackspace-api-key 098er098eqwec98dqdqd098
Add a Nephoscale backend:
mist add-backend --provider nephoscale --nepho-username nepho_username --nepho-password nepho_passwd
Add a DigitalOcean backend:
mist add-backend --provider digitalocean --digi-token kjhdkfh897dfodlkfjlkhdf90sdfusldkfjkljsdf098lkjlkj
Add a Linode backend:
mist add-backend --provider linode --linode-api-key dkljflkjlkgddgijgd00987ghudGgcf9Glkjh
Add an OpenStack backend:
mist add-backend --provider openstack --openstack-username demo --openstack-password mypass --openstack-auth-url http://10.0.0.1:5000 --openstack-tenant demo
Add a Softlayer backend:
mist add-backend --provider softlayer --softlayer-username soft_username --softlayer-api-key kjhfdkjahf098OIjhkFChiugiGIIUuoh
Add a HP Cloud backend:
mist add-backend --provider hpcloud --region region-a.geo-1 --hp-username hp_username --hp-password my_pass --hp-tenant my_tenant
Add a Azure backend:
To add a Azure backend you have to download to a file the Azure certificate.
mist add-backend --provider azure --azure-sub-id lkjoiy8-kjdjkhd-987-hd9d --azure-cert-path /home/user/azure.cert
Add a Docker backend:
mist add-backend --provider docker --docker-host 10.0.0.1 --docker-port 4243
Add a Bare Metal Server (or any server):
mist add-backend --provider bare_metal --bare-hostname 198.230.89.3 --bare-user root --bare-port 22 --bare-ssh-key-id my_ssh_key
Add a Google Compute Engine backend:
To add a GCE backend you have to download the private key file
mist add-backend --provider gce --gce-email 46234234246-3oiuoiu0980989873yui@developer.gserviceaccount.com --gce-project-id gifted-electron-10 --gce-private-key /home/user/gce.key
Add VMware(vCloud) backend:
mist add-backend --provider vcloud --vcloud-username admin --vcloud-password ioiuYoiuOIU --vcloud-organization MyOrg.io --vcloud-host compute.idcloudonline.com
Add Indonesian vCloud backend:
mist add-backend --provider indonesian_vcloud --indonesian-username admin --indonesian-password kjOIULKJLlkj --indonesian-organization MyOrg.io
Add KVM(via libvirt) backend:
mist add-backend --provider libvirt --libvirt-hostname 10.0.0.1 --libvirt-user root --libvirt-key MyAddedKey
You can now see a list of all your added backends:
mist list-backends
Output:
openstackaf0.mist.io 2Mn2ZnCoXhK3ywqzGn1fzWVmSSe6 bare_metal online
Icehouse 4ukW6Juooqa8bTu2YgM4mE8RAsk7 openstack online
EC2 AP Sydney 25ykPERh5D17DyoeKsCgw35DLmvw ec2_ap_southeast_2 online
Openstack Juno 2u5yKqXmDiZ7BHCk1u17FFcmFS2m openstack online
HP Helion Cloud 3WwgPBXETjdeMEbM5fUCACSvedGT hpcloud online
Google Compute Engine g6T3HYae2ZMcHfHyFGKVtMG6PZU gce online
Docker B3rbEA6bteaqMWJ4obVbgbqrXWf docker online
openstackdfe.mist.io XMdRN2u3NVASMm14BuHo4HJnS15 bare_metal online
Note
You can use the --pretty flag. mist list-backends --pretty will return:
+-----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------+--------+
| Name | ID | Provider | State |
+-----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------+--------+
| openstackaf0.mist.io | 2Mn2ZnCoXhK3ywqzGn1fzWVmSSe6 | bare_metal | online |
| Icehouse | 4ukW6Juooqa8bTu2YgM4mE8RAsk7 | openstack | online |
| EC2 AP Sydney | 25ykPERh5D17DyoeKsCgw35DLmvw | ec2_ap_southeast_2 | online |
| Openstack Juno | 2u5yKqXmDiZ7BHCk1u17FFcmFS2m | openstack | online |
| HP Helion Cloud | 3WwgPBXETjdeMEbM5fUCACSvedGT | hpcloud | online |
| Google Compute Engine | g6T3HYae2ZMcHfHyFGKVtMG6PZU | gce | online |
| Docker | B3rbEA6bteaqMWJ4obVbgbqrXWf | docker | online |
| openstackdfe.mist.io | XMdRN2u3NVASMm14BuHo4HJnS15 | bare_metal | online |
+-----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------+--------+
You can also display information about a specific backend, either by providing the backend’s name or ID. The following commands are equivalent:
mist describe-backend Icehouse
mist describe-backend 4ukW6Juooqa8bTu2YgM4mE8RAsk7
mist describe-backend --id 4ukW6Juooqa8bTu2YgM4mE8RAsk7
mist describe-backend --name Icehouse
Output:
+----------+------------------------------+-----------+--------+
| Title | ID | Provider | State |
+----------+------------------------------+-----------+--------+
| Icehouse | 4ukW6Juooqa8bTu2YgM4mE8RAsk7 | openstack | online |
+----------+------------------------------+-----------+--------+
Machines:
+---------+--------------------------------------+---------+-------------+
| Name | ID | State | Public Ips |
+---------+--------------------------------------+---------+-------------+
| atlanta | c9411bbe-2bb2-4a88-996c-d831272b426e | running | 109.59.77.32|
+---------+--------------------------------------+---------+-------------+
You have the option to rename a backend:
mist rename-backend Icehouse --new-name Openstack_Icehouse
Finally you can delete a backend. The following two commands are equivalent:
mist delete-backend Docker