This morning they rolled out the new Node SmartMachines, first featured during NodeKO. Now everyone can get a coupon code via the API and provision a machine.<p><pre><code> API URL: https://api.no.de/
Node URL: https://no.de/</code></pre>
Just to be clear, get your account: <a href="http://smart.joyent.com/signup" rel="nofollow">http://smart.joyent.com/signup</a><p>Then,<p>$ curl -k -u user:password <a href="https://api.no.de/heart" rel="nofollow">https://api.no.de/heart</a> -X POST
I tried to look around, but... I can't find any general information what is this all about? Nodes? SmartMachines? There's loads of installation instructions, API docs, etc. but where is the "what is it and why should I care" page?
This sounds like it might be a useful (will pay money for) service, but I have to say my first experience here was weird and slightly obnoxious. Why do I need to give you an SSH key when I first sign up? Why are coupon codes masked behind the API? When I first started it said I could request one, then I saw nothing.<p>I did figure out that I can request through your API via command line, but it seems like a have to use a weird unicode heart (/heart doesn't work). After futzing with that I discover all coupons are gone. Awesome.
I tried it, but doing a GET to api.no.de/coupons returned an empty array ([]) and posting to ♥ got me {errors:"page not found"}<p>I wonder if they're out of coupons..?