Vultr host-information lookup (for use in startup scripts)

vultr_facts.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# This script retrieves the information for your current Vultr node and prints Facter facts.
 
import urllib
import sys
import json
API_KEY = sys.argv[1] # This will crash unless you provide the API key.
 
def fetch(url):
    return urllib.urlopen(url).read()
 
ip = fetch('http://169.254.169.254/current/meta-data/public-ipv4')
hosts = json.loads(fetch('https://api.vultr.com/v1/server/list?api_key=%s' % API_KEY))
 
for host in hosts.values():
    if host.get('main_ip') == ip:
        for k,v in host.items():
            print 'vultr_%s=%s' % (k.lower(), v)

vultr_hostdata.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# This script retrieves the information for your current Vultr node and prints the JSON blob.

import urllib
import sys
import json
API_KEY = sys.argv[1] # This will crash unless you provide the API key.

def fetch(url):
    return urllib.urlopen(url).read()

ip = fetch('http://169.254.169.254/current/meta-data/public-ipv4')
hosts = json.loads(fetch('https://api.vultr.com/v1/server/list?api_key=%s' % API_KEY))

for host in hosts.values():
    if host.get('main_ip') == ip:
        print json.dumps(host, indent=4)