libcloud Python example – kick.py

So here is an example python script that you can use to build new CloudServers and then deploy software on them. This particular example is pretty basic and only installs either a LAMP stack or just a simple installation of MySQL. Don’t let the limitations of this particular script fool you into thinking that is all libcloud or python can do because that is not the case. You can do something pretty basic like this one, extend the script to utilize threading which will allow you to deploy multiple instances at a time, or simply have more complex software installations. Before you run the script...