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Create Deployment
Create Deployment
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Create a new deployment.
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Curl
Prerequisite: Example assumes you have previously authenticated, and your valid session cookie is in 'mycookie'.
Example Call
#!/bin/sh -e curl -i -H X_API_VERSION:1.5 -b mycookie -X POST \ -d deployment[name]="Deployment for API Sandbox" \ -d deployment[description]="Sandbox for miscellaneous API tests" \ https://my.rightscale.com/api/deployments.xml
Sample Output
HTTP/1.1 201 Created Server: nginx/1.0.15 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:33:36 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive Status: 201 Created Location: /api/deployments/314837001 X-Runtime: 292 X-Request-Uuid: ecf7f1ed401b48a4b98de27d894389db Set-Cookie: _session_id=b8112ab3a540a2cf0a81ce64be2c3e38; path=/; Secure; HttpOnly Cache-Control: no-cache
PowerShell
Prerequisite: Example assumes you have previously authenticated and your session cookie for subsequent requests is in 'cookieContainer'.
Example Call
#get cookie container from authentication $cookieContainer
$deploymentName = "Deployment for API Sandbox"
$deploymentDescription = "Sandbox for Miscellaneous API Tests"
$postString = "deployment[name]=""$deploymentName""&deployment[description]=$deploymentDescription"
$postBytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($postString)
$createDeploymentRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("https://my.rightscale.com/api/deployments.xml")
$createDeploymentRequest.Method = "POST"
$createDeploymentRequest.CookieContainer = $cookieContainer
$createDeploymentRequest.Headers.Add("X_API_VERSION", "1.5");
$createDeploymentRequestStream = $createDeploymentRequest.GetRequestStream()
$createDeploymentRequestStream.Write($postBytes, 0, $postBytes.Length)
$createDeploymentRequestStream.Close()
[System.Net.WebResponse] $createDeploymentResponse = $createDeploymentRequest.GetResponse()
$createDeploymentResponseStream = $createDeploymentResponse.GetResponseStream()
$createDeploymentResponseStreamReader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $createDeploymentResponseStream
[string]$createDeploymentResponseString = $createDeploymentResponseStreamReader.ReadToEnd() Sample Output
IsMutuallyAuthenticated : False
Cookies : {}
Headers : {Transfer-Encoding, Connection, Status, X-Runtime...}
SupportsHeaders : True
ContentLength : -1
ContentEncoding :
ContentType : text/html; charset=utf-8
CharacterSet : utf-8
Server : nginx/1.0.15
LastModified : 2/21/2013 12:54:34 PM
StatusCode : Created
StatusDescription : Created
ProtocolVersion : 1.1
ResponseUri : https://my.rightscale.com/api/deployments.xml
Method : POST
IsFromCache : False Postman
See the Create Deployment example (RightScale API 1.6 Guide: Appendix A - APEye Tools > Google Chrome Postman Plugin)
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