Create a new Remote Worker Group from BASH
Pliant has an extensive API (See https://your.instance/api for your Pliant API Swagger) that allows much of the same functions that can be performed via the UI.
The following steps illustrate how to authenticate to the Pliant API via curl and create a new worker group. Please update the variables and curl arguments as needed for your environment
# authenticate: PLIANT_HOST=PliantIPorFQDN PLIANT_USER=admin PLIANT_PASS=YourAdminPwd TOKEN=`curl -ks "https://$PLIANT_HOST/api/oauth/token" -H 'Authorization: Basic cGxpYW50LmlvLXNwYTpWN1VPR3pBbHZ4V0xVWDhGYzVhVA==' -d "grant_type=password&username=$PLIANT_USER&password=$PLIANT_PASS" | grep -Po '(?<="access_token":").*?[^\\\\](?=")'`
You can now check for a long alphanumeric token in the $TOKEN variable
echo $TOKEN
If you have a valid token, you have authenticated to the API and are ready to perform a request
# request: GROUP_DESC="New worker group created by User via CLI for Denmark Datacenter" GROUP_NAME="Denmark" GROUP_SECRET="verygoodcoffee4me" curl -k -X POST "https://${PLIANT_HOST}:443/api/v1/worker-group" -H "accept: */*" -H "authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"description\": \"${GROUP_DESC}\", \"name\": \"${GROUP_NAME}\", \"secret\": \"${GROUP_SECRET}\", \"validateCertificates\": false}"
The curl command will have no output if successful