Whether you need compute, dns, storage, or a multitude of other services, fog provides an accessible entry point and facilitates cross service compatibility.
Just getting started working with cloud resources? You are not alone, and having so many complicated options makes it hard to know where to start. fog delivers the knowledge of cloud experts to you, helping you to bootstrap your cloud usage and guiding you as your own expertise develops.
By coding with fog from the start you avoid vendor lock-in and give yourself more flexibility to provide value. Whether you are writing a library, designing a software as a service product or just hacking on the weekend this flexibility is a huge boon.
With a rapidly expanding community and codebase the advantages of fog just keep coming. Join us and together we will realize the future of cloud computing.
Prerequisites
Fog recommends using MRI >= 2.5.0. While not officially supported, Fog has been known to work with earlier MRI versions as well as Ruby Enterprise Edition, Rubinus and JRuby.
Quick Start
To install
gem install fog
Now type ‘fog’ to try stuff, confident that fog will let you know what to do. Here is an example of wading through server creation for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud:
>> server = Compute[:aws].servers.create
ArgumentError: image_id is required for this operation
>> server = Compute[:aws].servers.create(:image_id => 'ami-5ee70037')
<Fog::AWS::EC2::Server [...]>
>> server.destroy # cleanup after yourself or regret it, trust me
true
Go forth and conquer
Play around and use the console to explore or check out the getting started guide for more details. Once you are ready to start scripting fog, here is a quick hint on how to make connections without the command line thing to help you.
# create a compute connection
compute = Fog::Compute.new({
:provider => 'AWS',
:aws_access_key_id => ACCESS_KEY_ID,
:aws_secret_access_key => SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
})
# compute operations go here
# create a storage connection
storage = Fog::Storage.new({
:provider => 'AWS',
:aws_access_key_id => ACCESS_KEY_ID,
:aws_secret_access_key => SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
})
# storage operations go here
geemus says: “That should give you everything you need to get started, but let me know if there is anything I can do to help!”
Contributing
- Find something you would like to work on.
- Look for anything you can help with in the issue tracker.
- Look at the code quality metrics for anything you can help clean up.
- Or anything else!
- Fork the project and do your work in a topic branch.
- Make sure your changes will work for the Rubies in .travis.yml (currently MRI 1.8, 1.9, and Ruby 2.0).
- Add a config at
tests/.fog
for the component you want to test. - Add shindo tests to prove your code works and run all the tests using
rake travis
. - Rebase your branch against
fog/fog
to make sure everything is up to date. - Commit your changes and send a pull request.
Resources
Enjoy, and let me know what I can do to continue improving fog!
- Work through the fog tutorial
- Read fog’s API documentation master branch or latest gem release
- Stay up to date by following @fog and/or @geemus on Twitter.
- Follow release notes and discussions on the mailing list
- Report bugs or find tasks to help with in the issues
- Learn about contributing
- Check out blog posts and other mentions in the press
Copyright
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2012 geemus (Wesley Beary)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.