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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import eventlet
+from eventlet.green import socket
+import libssh2
+import time
+import os
+import random
+import base64
+import uuid
+import M2Crypto
+from novaclient.v1_1 import client
+
+def instance_start(instance_name, image_name, flavor_name):
+ """
+ Method to start an instance
+ """
+ def _null_callback(p, n, out):
+ """
+ Method to silence the default M2Crypto.RSA.gen_key output.
+ """
+ pass
+
+ private_key = M2Crypto.RSA.gen_key(2048, 65537, _null_callback)
+
+ # this is the binary public key, in ssh "BN" (BigNumber) MPI format.
+ # The ssh BN MPI format consists of 4 bytes that describe the length
+ # of the following data, followed by the data itself in big-endian
+ # format. The start of the string is 0x0007, which represent the 7
+ # bytes following that make up 'ssh-rsa'. The key exponent and
+ # modulus as fetched out of M2Crypto are already in MPI format, so
+ # we can just use them as-is. We then have to base64 encode the
+ # result, add a little header information, and then we have a
+ # full public key.
+ username = os.environ['OS_USERNAME']
+ password = os.environ['OS_PASSWORD']
+ tenant = os.environ['OS_TENANT_NAME']
+ auth_url = os.environ['OS_AUTH_URL']
+ nova_client = client.Client(username, password, tenant, auth_url, service_type='compute', service_name='nova')
+ public_key_bn = '\x00\x00\x00\x07' + 'ssh-rsa' + private_key.e + private_key.n
+ public_key = 'ssh-rsa %s support@heat-api.org\n' % (base64.b64encode(public_key_bn))
+ private_key.save_key('/tmp/private_key', cipher=None)
+ random_uuid = uuid.uuid4()
+ key_uuid = uuid.uuid3(random_uuid, '%s %s %s' % (instance_name, image_name, flavor_name))
+ nova_client.keypairs.create(str(key_uuid), public_key)
+
+ image_list = nova_client.images.list()
+ for o in image_list:
+ if getattr(o, 'name', '') == image_name:
+ image_id = o.id #getattr(o, 'id', '')
+
+ flavor_list = nova_client.flavors.list()
+ for o in flavor_list:
+ if getattr(o, 'name', '') == flavor_name:
+ flavor_id = getattr(o, 'id', '')
+
+ nova_client.servers.create(name=instance_name, image=image_id,
+ flavor=flavor_id, key_name=str(key_uuid))
+
+ return private_key
+
+instance_start('instance-F16-test', 'F16-x86_64', "m1.tiny")
+