Development

Developing tools with the Abiquo API: noVNC token generator

February 24th, 2014 / Sergio Pena

 Most of the examples we have provided of how to interact with the Abiquo API are written in Python, so now it’s time to put some rubies in our blog. We will show you how to use Ruby to interact with Abiquo APIs. First we will consume events by connecting to the Outbound API, but […]

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An open approach to code reviews

June 18th, 2013 / Ignasi Barrera

 One of the key aspects of every software product is the quality of the product itself. This is often measured by taking the number of bugs, performance metrics, the amount of memory needed to run it, and shown to the world in the form of attractive reports and graphics. However, there is one aspect that […]

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Abiquo 2.4.0 EE is here!

April 26th, 2013 / Xavi Fernandez

 It is a pleasure to announce in our technical blog the release of Abiquo 2.4 (internally called King Piccolo). I don't think it's necessary to go over all the features included in this release because you can read about them on our public site and I'm sure that Abiquo's business associates will make an announcement of them on their […]

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Developing tools with Abiquo API: Event notifier

March 7th, 2013 / Marc Morata

 One of the KEY points of Abiquo is that you can use its API to access ALL resources and actions available from the graphical user interface. This enables us to create an infinite number of external applications that you can integrate with your environment or platform. All the API resources are documented on our wiki. In this […]

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Inspect and modify your VM filesystems remotely with libguestfs

June 26th, 2012 / Marc Morata

 In Abiquo environments, it’s common for the Cloud Admin to have permissions to access every VM on the platform. However, sometimes it’s not easy to get into these systems. Imagine you have a virtual machine that has lost connectivity, VNC is unavaliable, it’s corrupted or you don’t know the login and password to get some […]

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Abiquo API Versioning

June 20th, 2012 / ssedano

 Here at Abiquo we just released our 2.0-GA version. And among many improvements and goodies we released our API. From the beginning, we have always wanted to stick to RESTFul principles of design. We all agreed that RESTFul APIs when done well are simple to use and easy to understand. We want to not only […]

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Building a pluggable command line tool in Python

May 7th, 2012 / Ignasi Barrera

 In their day-to-day work, developers often have to perform the same task over and over, losing valuable time that could be spent on more productive things. As good geeks/developers, the first thing that comes to mind is to automate those tasks, and writing small scripts or programs to perform them is the most common solution. […]

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