Using starcluster as a library

From: Jeff White <no email>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:58:32 -0800

I just joined the list and am responding to a post back in May 2010 with the
same subject. I wrote this python script as recommended by Justin:

def main():
     cfg = starcluster.config.StarClusterConfig(); cfg.load()
     sc = cfg.get_cluster_template('smallcluster', 'mynewcluster')
     if sc.is_valid():
         sc.start(create=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
     main()


The instances were created, but the only output I get is this instead of the
usual status messages about the master node and installing SGE etc.

Reservation:r-74f42b19
2/2
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100%
2/2
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100%

My guess is that starcluster.logger needs to be imported in some way, but I
haven't figured out how. I'm new to starcluster and python, so I may be
missing something obvious. I hope that using starcluster in this way is not
considered a hack, and is somewhat officially supported. This gives me
convenient access to cluster values, which I don't get by using the
command-line tools.

thanks,
jeff
Received on Tue Feb 15 2011 - 20:58:33 EST