Clone a QDS Account

POST /api/v1.2/accounts/clone

Use this API to clone a QDS account. You can choose to clone the users from the parent account; by default, they are not cloned.

Required Role

The following users can make this API call:

Users who belong to the system-admin group.
Users who belong to a group associated with a role that allows cloning an account. See Managing Groups and Managing Roles for more information.

Parameters

Note

Parameters marked in bold below are mandatory. Others are optional and have default values.

Parameter	Description
id	Account ID of the account that is to be cloned
name	Name of the new cloned account. Provide a name to the account.
clone_qbol_users	Set this parameter to `true` when you want to associate parent account users with the cloned account as well. If it is not set, only the user who clones the account would get associated with the cloned account.
generate_external_id	Generates the new external ID for the cloned account. The available values are `true` and `false`. This feature is disabled by default. Contact Qubole Support to enable the same for your account.

Note

By default, clusters are cloned.

Request API Syntax

curl -X POST -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN:<AUTH-TOKEN>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{"id":"<Account-Id>", "name":"<account-name>", "clone_qbol_users":"false"}' "https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/accounts/clone"

Note

The above syntax uses https://api.qubole.com as the endpoint. Qubole provides other endpoints to access QDS that are described in Supported Qubole Endpoints on Different Cloud Providers.

Sample Request

Here is a sample request API to clone a QDS account with ID 23.

curl -X POST -H "X-AUTH-TOKEN:<AUTH-TOKEN>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json"
-d '{
     "id":"$ACCOUNT_ID",
     "name":"clone acc",
     "clone_qbol_users":"false"}' "https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/accounts/clone/"

Sample Response

{
     "name": "clone acc",
     "state": "success_create",
     "groups": [
         "system-admin",
         "everyone"
               ],
     "authentication_token": "$AUTH_TOKEN",
     "account_id": "$ACCOUNT_ID",
     "is_aws_keys_enabled": true,
     "status": "success"
}