Server

Servers represent the notion of a server/machine from the RightScale's perspective. A Server, does not always have a corresponding VM running or provisioned in a cloud. Some clouds use the word "servers" to refer to created VM's. These allocated VM's are not called Servers in the RightScale API, they are called Instances.

A Server always has a next_instance association, which will define the configuration to apply to a new instance when the server is launched or started (starting servers is not yet supported through this API). Once a Server is launched/started a current_instance relationship will exist. Accessing the current_instance of a server results in immediate runtime modification of this running server. Changes to the next_instance association prepares the configuration for the next instance launch/start (therefore they have no effect until such operation is performed).

Content-Types

Content type

application/vnd.rightscale.server

Relationships

alert_specs

Associated AlertSpecs

alerts

Associated Alerts

current_instance

Associated current instance

deployment

Associated deployment

next_instance

Associated next instance

self

Href of itself

Actions

clone

Clones this server

launch

Launches this server

terminate

Terminates the server

Attributes

actions

 

created_at

 

current_instance

 

description

 

links

 

name

 

next_instance

 

optimized

 

state

 

updated_at