balena-sdk

Balena SDK

The official balena SDK for python.

Role

The intention of this module is to provide developers a nice API to integrate their python applications with balena.

Installation

Install the balena SDK:

From Source:

https://github.com/balena-io/balena-sdk-python

From git:

pip install git+https://github.com/balena-io/balena-sdk-python.git

Example of installing on a Debian container:

FROM balenalib/amd64-debian:stretch

# Install python 3 and balena SDK dependencies.
RUN install_packages build-essential python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools \
    python3-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev

# Install balena python SDK in python 3.
RUN pip3 install balena-sdk

Example of installing on a Alpine Linux container:

FROM balenalib/amd64-alpine:3.9

# Install python 3 and balena SDK dependencies.
RUN install_packages build-base python3 py3-setuptools python3-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev

# Install balena python SDK in python 3.
RUN pip3 install balena-sdk

Platforms

We also support NodeJS SDK.

Basic Usage

>>> from balena import Balena
>>> balena = Balena()
>>> credentials = {'username':, 'password':}
>>> balena.auth.login(**credentials)
...

Documentation

We generate markdown documentation in DOCUMENTATION.md.

To generate the documentation run:

python docs_generator.py > DOCUMENTATION.md

Deprecation policy

The balena SDK for Python uses semver versioning, with the concepts of major, minor and patch version releases.

The latest release of the previous major version of the balena SDK will remain compatible with the balenaCloud backend services for one year from the date when the next major version is released. For example, balena SDK v8.1.1, as the latest v8 release, would remain compatible with the balenaCloud backend for one year from the date when v9.0.0 is released.

At the end of this period, the older major version is considered deprecated and some of the functionality that depends on balenaCloud services may stop working at any time. Users are encouraged to regularly update the balena SDK to the latest version.

Developing locally

This project uses poetry for dependency management. In order to install all the needed dependencies please run poetry install.

Linting and Formatting

This project uses black for code formatting and flake8 for linting.

To format this project please use poetry run black . -l 120 To verify linting you can run poetry run flake8 --max-line-length=120

Tests

To run the tests, first create a .env file with your test user configuration, e.g.:

[Credentials]
email=my_test_user@balena.io
user_id=my_test_user
password=123456my_password

You can optionally change the target API endpoint too, e.g. api_endpoint=https://api.balena-cloud.com.

Then run python -m unittest discover tests -v.

Support

If you're having any problem, please raise an issue on GitHub and the balena team will be happy to help.

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: github.com/balena-io/balena-sdk-python/issues
• Source Code: github.com/balena-io/balena-sdk-python

License

The project is licensed under the MIT license.