Portal

The shell

CURL

The portal application runs a Flask endpoint listening on TCP 9000. It listens for shell requests and runs them in a temporary directory. Each request must map to one our tools.

You can access the portal from the outside world by simply CURLing commands with a POST /shell. The shell snippet is passed via the X-Shell header. You can for instance run the ls tool this way:

$ curl -X POST -H "X-Shell:ls" http://52.6.130.234:9000/shell
{"ok": true, "ms": 463, "out": "\n1 pods, 100% running ->\n - default.ocho-proxy #1\n"}

You can upload files as well (for instance when deploying clusters). The files will land in the temporary directory and be wiped out as soon as the tool completes. Just use a regular multi-part upload, for instance:

$ curl -X POST -H "X-Shell:deploy redis -p 3" -F "redis=@redis.yml" http://52.6.130.234:9000/shell

The response is a serialized JSON object featuring the raw stdout dump of whatever tool you ran. It is thus quite trivial to build a shallow CLI front-end on your end to interact with the remote shell. Any failure will set the ok boolean to false (e.g non-zero exit code from the tool process).

Note

Some tools will require that one or more files be uploaded (deploy for instance).

Using a browser

The portal will also return HTML on TCP 9000 for a GET /. We serve back a simple JQuery terminal that will allow you to interactively perform the same shell calls via AJAX.