| Dimension Data Load Balancer Driver Documentation | |
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| Dimension Data are a global IT Services company and form part of the NTT Group. | |
| Dimension Data provide IT-as-a-Service to customers around the globe on their | |
| cloud platform (Compute as a Service). The CaaS service is available either on | |
| one of the public cloud instances or as a private instance on premises. | |
| .. figure:: /_static/images/provider_logos/dimensiondata.png | |
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| :width: 300 | |
| :target: http://cloud.dimensiondata.com/ | |
| CaaS has its own non-standard `API`_ , `libcloud` provides a Python | |
| wrapper on top of this `API`_ with common methods with other IaaS solutions and | |
| Public cloud providers. Therefore, you can use use the Dimension Data libcloud | |
| driver to communicate with both the public and private clouds. | |
| Instantiating a driver | |
| ---------------------- | |
| When you instantiate a driver you need to pass the following arguments to the | |
| driver constructor: | |
| * ``user_id`` - Your Dimension Data Cloud username | |
| * ``key`` - Your Dimension Data Cloud password | |
| * ``region`` - The region key, one of the possible region keys | |
| Possible regions: | |
| * ``dd-na`` : Dimension Data North America (USA) | |
| * ``dd-eu`` : Dimension Data Europe | |
| * ``dd-af`` : Dimension Data Africa | |
| * ``dd-au`` : Dimension Data Australia | |
| * ``dd-latam`` : Dimension Data Latin America | |
| * ``dd-ap`` : Dimension Data Asia Pacific | |
| * ``dd-canada`` : Dimension Data Canada region | |
| The base `libcloud` API allows you to: | |
| * create balancers, add members and destroy members | |
| Non-standard functionality and extension methods | |
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| The Dimension Data driver exposes some `libcloud` non-standard | |
| functionalities through extension methods and arguments. | |
| These functionalities include: | |
| * list nodes | |
| * list pools | |
| * set the network domain (zone) | |
| For information on how to use these functionalities please see the method | |
| docstrings below. You can also use an interactive shell for exploration as | |
| shown in the examples. | |
| API Docs | |
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| .. autoclass:: libcloud.loadbalancer.drivers.dimensiondata.DimensionDataLBDriver | |
| :members: | |
| :inherited-members: | |
| .. _`API`: http://cloud.dimensiondata.com/au/en/services/public-cloud/api |