metalcloud-cli vm-type create¶

Create a new VM type from configuration

Synopsis¶

Create a new VM type in the MetalCloud platform using a configuration file or piped input.

The configuration must be provided in JSON format and include all required fields:

name: Unique name for the VM type
cpuCores: Number of CPU cores
ramGB: Amount of RAM in gigabytes

Optional fields include displayName, label, isExperimental, forUnmanagedVMsOnly, and tags.

REQUIRED FLAGS: –config-source string Source of the VM type configuration (required) Can be ‘pipe’ for stdin or path to a JSON file

EXAMPLES:

Create VM type from file¶

metalcloud vm-type create –config-source vm-type-config.json

Create VM type from stdin¶

echo ‘{“name”:”test-vm”,”cpuCores”:2,”ramGB”:4}’ | metalcloud vm-type create –config-source pipe

Generate example config and create VM type¶

metalcloud vm-type config-example > config.json

Edit config.json as needed¶

metalcloud vm-type create –config-source config.json

metalcloud-cli vm-type create [flags]

Options¶

      --config-source string   Source of the new VM type configuration. Can be 'pipe' or path to a JSON file.
  -h, --help                   help for create

Options inherited from parent commands¶

  -k, --api_key string         MetalCloud API key
  -c, --config string          Config file path
  -d, --debug                  Set to enable debug logging
  -e, --endpoint string        MetalCloud API endpoint
  -f, --format string          Output format. Supported values are 'text','csv','md','json','yaml'. (default "text")
  -i, --insecure_skip_verify   Set to allow insecure transport
  -l, --log_file string        Log file path
  -v, --verbosity string       Log level verbosity (default "INFO")