saltant SDK for Python

saltant-py is a Python SDK for saltant. It lets you perform any action possible on the saltant API (some much more conveniently) within the comforts (hopefully) of Python. As a refresher, you might want to look at saltant's API reference to see what actions are possible.

The documentation for saltant-py is fairly comprehensive, and can be found at saltant-py.readthedocs.io.

Installation

Using pip,

pip install saltant-py

or, from source, after cloning this repository, run

python setup.py install

where python is in versions 2.7 or 3.5+.

Usage

After connecting to the saltant server with

from saltant.client import from_env
client = from_env() # uses env vars

or

from saltant.client import Client
client = Client(
    base_api_url='https://shahlabjobs.ca/api/',
    auth_token='p0gch4mp101fy451do9uod1s1x9i4a')

You can perform API operations on task types:

# Load in a task type
my_task_type = client.container_task_types.get(id=1)

# Edit the description of the task type
my_task_type.description = "this description is better"

# Push the description upstream
my_task_type.put()

You can launch task instances:

# Launch a task instance
my_task_instance = client.container_task_instances.create(
    task_type_id=my_task_type.id,
    task_queue_id=1,
    arguments={"launch_code": 12345},
)

# Wait for the task instance to finish
my_task_instance.wait_until_finished()

And much more! (See the docs for more details.)

See also

saltant-cli, a saltant CLI.