Currently, you can operate Longhorn using Longhorn UI. We are planning to build a dedicated Longhorn CLI in the upcoming releases.

In the meantime, you can access Longhorn API using Python binding, as we demonstrated below.

1. Get Longhorn endpoint

   One way to communicate with Longhorn is through longhorn-frontend service.

   If you run your automation/scripting tool inside the same cluster in which Longhorn is installed, connect to the endpoint http://longhorn-frontend.longhorn-system/v1

   If you run your automation/scripting tool on your local machine, use kubectl port-forward to forward the longhorn-frontend service to localhost:

   kubectl port-forward services/longhorn-frontend 8080:http -n longhorn-system
   

   and connect to endpoint http://localhost:8080/v1

2. Using Python Client

   Import file longhorn.py which contains the Python client into your Python script and create a client from the endpoint:

   import longhorn
   
   # If automation/scripting tool is inside the same cluster in which Longhorn is installed
   longhorn_url = 'http://longhorn-frontend.longhorn-system/v1'
   # If forwarding `longhorn-frontend` service to localhost
   longhorn_url = 'http://localhost:8080/v1'
   
   client = longhorn.Client(url=longhorn_url)
   
   # Volume operations
   # List all volumes
   volumes = client.list_volume()
   # Get volume by NAME/ID
   testvol1 = client.by_id_volume(id="testvol1")
   # Attach TESTVOL1
   testvol1 = testvol1.attach(hostId="worker-1")
   # Detach TESTVOL1
   testvol1.detach()
   # Create a snapshot of TESTVOL1 with NAME
   snapshot1 = testvol1.snapshotCreate(name="snapshot1")
   # Create a backup from a snapshot NAME
   testvol1.snapshotBackup(name=snapshot1.name)
   # Update the number of replicas of TESTVOL1
   testvol1.updateReplicaCount(replicaCount=2)
   # Find more examples in Longhorn integration tests https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn-tests/tree/master/manager/integration/tests
   
   # Node operations
   # List all nodes
   nodes = client.list_node()
   # Get node by NAME/ID
   node1 = client.by_id_node(id="worker-1")
   # Disable scheduling for NODE1
   client.update(node1, allowScheduling=False)
   # Enable scheduling for NODE1
   client.update(node1, allowScheduling=True)
   # Find more examples in Longhorn integration tests https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn-tests/tree/master/manager/integration/tests
   
   # Setting operations
   # List all settings
   settings = client.list_setting()
   # Get setting by NAME/ID
   backupTargetsetting = client.by_id_setting(id="backup-target")
   # Update a setting
   backupTargetsetting = client.update(backupTargetsetting, value="s3://backupbucket@us-east-1/")
   # Find more examples in Longhorn integration tests https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn-tests/tree/master/manager/integration/tests