Getting Started With Aliyun ECS

The Aliyun ECS (Elastic Computer Service) is one of the most popular public cloud providers in China. This cloud provider can be used to manage aliyun instance using salt-cloud.

http://www.aliyun.com/

Dependencies

This driver requires the Python requests library to be installed.

Configuration

Using Salt for Aliyun ECS requires aliyun access key id and key secret. These can be found in the aliyun web interface, in the "User Center" section, under "My Service" tab.

# Note: This example is for /etc/salt/cloud.providers or any file in the
# /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/ directory.

my-aliyun-config:
  # aliyun Access Key ID
  id: wDGEwGregedg3435gDgxd
  # aliyun Access Key Secret
  key: GDd45t43RDBTrkkkg43934t34qT43t4dgegerGEgg
  location: cn-qingdao
  provider: aliyun

Profiles

Cloud Profiles

Set up an initial profile at /etc/salt/cloud.profiles or in the /etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/ directory:

aliyun_centos:
    provider: my-aliyun-config
    size: ecs.t1.small
    location: cn-qingdao
    securitygroup: G1989096784427999
    image: centos6u3_64_20G_aliaegis_20130816.vhd

Sizes can be obtained using the --list-sizes option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-sizes my-aliyun-config
my-aliyun-config:
    ----------
    aliyun:
        ----------
        ecs.c1.large:
            ----------
            CpuCoreCount:
                8
            InstanceTypeId:
                ecs.c1.large
            MemorySize:
                16.0

...SNIP...

Images can be obtained using the --list-images option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --list-images my-aliyun-config
my-aliyun-config:
    ----------
    aliyun:
        ----------
        centos5u8_64_20G_aliaegis_20131231.vhd:
            ----------
            Architecture:
                x86_64
            Description:

            ImageId:
                centos5u8_64_20G_aliaegis_20131231.vhd
            ImageName:
                CentOS 5.8 64位
            ImageOwnerAlias:
                system
            ImageVersion:
                1.0
            OSName:
                CentOS  5.8 64位
            Platform:
                CENTOS5
            Size:
                20
            Visibility:
                public
...SNIP...

Locations can be obtained using the --list-locations option for the salt-cloud command:

my-aliyun-config:
    ----------
    aliyun:
        ----------
        cn-beijing:
            ----------
            LocalName:
                北京
            RegionId:
                cn-beijing
        cn-hangzhou:
            ----------
            LocalName:
                杭州
            RegionId:
                cn-hangzhou
        cn-hongkong:
            ----------
            LocalName:
                香港
            RegionId:
                cn-hongkong
        cn-qingdao:
            ----------
            LocalName:
                青岛
            RegionId:
                cn-qingdao

Security Group can be obtained using the -f list_securitygroup option for the salt-cloud command:

# salt-cloud --location=cn-qingdao -f list_securitygroup my-aliyun-config
my-aliyun-config:
    ----------
    aliyun:
        ----------
        G1989096784427999:
            ----------
            Description:
                G1989096784427999
            SecurityGroupId:
                G1989096784427999

Note

Aliyun ECS REST API documentation is available from Aliyun ECS API.