Anyone know how to do this in Vultr API V2

MatthewM

I am trying to find a way of getting the API to search for a instance based on its label and than output only its instance-id.

Anyone know how to do this?

RickBakkr

A label is not meant as an identifier and shall never be used as such. ID is in "instance-id" for a reason ;-)

You could always just fetch all your instances through https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances and iterate through its output until you find a match.

Maybe it is an idea to do the above once so you can map label-instance-id and then migrate to storing / referencing instance-ids internally instead?

MatthewM

@RickBakkr said:
A label is not meant as an identifier and shall never be used as such. ID is in "instance-id" for a reason ;-)

You could always just fetch all your instances through https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances and iterate through its output until you find a match.

Maybe it is an idea to do the above once so you can map label-instance-id and then migrate to storing / referencing instance-ids internally instead?

I am looking to do it extarnally as I want to be able to automaticly create and remove VMs.

RickBakkr

@MatthewM said:

@RickBakkr said:
A label is not meant as an identifier and shall never be used as such. ID is in "instance-id" for a reason ;-)

You could always just fetch all your instances through https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances and iterate through its output until you find a match.

Maybe it is an idea to do the above once so you can map label-instance-id and then migrate to storing / referencing instance-ids internally instead?

I am looking to do it extarnally as I want to be able to automaticly create and remove VMs.

https://www.vultr.com/api/v2/#operation/create-instance

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corbpie

Here you go [gist]