Introduction

Installation

The SDK has been tested against Python 2.7.6 and Python 3.6.4.

Install from pip:

pip install rubrik_cdm

Install from source:

$ git clone https://github.com/rubrik-devops/rubrik-sdk-for-python
$ cd rubrik-sdk-for-python
$ python setup.py install

Configuration

Before you begin to use the Rubrik Python SDK, you should first setup your authentication credentials. By default, the SDK will attempt to read the the Rubrik Cluster credentials from the following environment variables:

  • rubrik_cdm_node_ip

  • rubrik_cdm_username

  • rubrik_cdm_password

Usage

To use the SDK, you must first instantiate a new variable, in thise case rubrik, to connect to the Rubrik Cluster.

Note: You may use any variable name to connect to the Rubrik Cluster.

If you have not configured the correct environment variables you may also manually pass in the required authentication credentials.

Debug

To enable debuging set the Connect() enable_logging keyword argument to True.

Example

Script:

Output:

Certificate Verification

When connecting to a Rubrik cluster without certificate verification enabled (see the Rubrik CDM Security Guide for additional information) you will receive the following warning message:

To supress this warning add the following code to your script:

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