Category Archives: Cloud

Rackspace CloudDNS python binding

Posted on 17 July, 2011 by chmouel

I have released a python binding to Rackspace CloudDNS here which allow you to create/update/delete domains and records. It’s available on github https://github.com/rackspace/python-clouddns/ The binding is pretty simple and have unfortunately no documentation (or even tests) but you can figure … Continue reading →

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Mass editing firewall on Rackspace Cloud.

Posted on 5 May, 2011 by chmouel

A lot of our customers in Rackspace cloud has been asking how to mass edit firewalls of servers when you have multiple servers without doing it manually. Part of my cloudservers-api-demo I have written a simple firewall scripts abstracting the … Continue reading →

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Howto shutdown your Cloud Server and not getting billed for it.

Posted on 7 April, 2011 by chmouel

Currently in Rackspace-Cloud when you are shutting-down your Cloud Servers you are still paying for it. The reason is that when the Cloud Server is shut-down your CloudServer is still sitting on the hyper-visor and still use resources on the … Continue reading →

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Uploading to Rackspace Cloud Files via FTP

Posted on 6 April, 2011 by chmouel

Sometime ago I wrote a FTP proxy to RackSpace Cloud Files which expose Rackspace Cloud Files as a FTP server acting as a proxy. Thanks to the OpenSource community a user on github took it and add support OpenStack and … Continue reading →

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Installing python-cloudfiles from pypi

Posted on 16 February, 2011 by chmouel

I have just uploaded python-cloudfiles to pypi available here This make things easy to add as a dependence of your project like you can have something like this in your setup.py : requirements = ['python-cloudfiles'] and it will automatically download … Continue reading →

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How to use fireuploader with the Rackspace Cloud UK

Posted on 7 February, 2011 by chmouel

Fireuploader is a Firefox addon that gives you a nice GUI to upload files via your firefox browser. I have made a special version of the extensions to make it works with the RackSpace Cloud UK. Install the addon from … Continue reading →

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Howto access the UK Rackspace Cloud with the PHP Binding

Posted on 12 January, 2011 by chmouel

One of the last library I didn’t documented in my earlier post was php-cloudfiles. You need to have at least the version 1.7.6 released to have support to different auth_server and when you have that you can do it like … Continue reading →

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Backup with duplicity on Rackspace CloudFiles (including UK) script.

Posted on 6 January, 2011 by chmouel

It seems that my post about using duplicity to backup your data on Rackspace CloudFiles got popular and people may be interested to use with the newly (Beta) released Rackspace Cloud UK. You would just need to have a environnement … Continue reading →

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Howto use Cyberduck with Rackspace Cloud UK

Posted on 4 January, 2011 by chmouel

If you are wondering howto use a graphical client like Cyberduck to access the Rackspace Cloud UK this is how you do it. We are going to use the Swift OpenStack support in Cyberduck to access the UK CloudFiles instance. … Continue reading →

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How-to use the Rackspace Cloud UK API