Using python-novaclient against Rackspace Cloud next generation (powered by OpenStack)

With the modular auth plugin system merged into python-novaclient it is now very easy to use nova CLI against the Rackspace Public Cloud powered by OpenStack.

we even have a metapackage that would install all the needed bits. This should be easy as doing this :

and all dependencies and extensions will be installed. To actually use the CLI you just need to specify the right arguments (or via env variable see nova –help) like this :

on RAX cloud, usually the username is the tenant name so this should match.

For the UK Cloud you just need to change the auth_system to rackspace_uk like this :