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. You first Open Cyberduck and Click on open connection : In the Menu choose Swift (OpenStack Object Storage) and in Server field you specify : lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com and enter your Username and Api Key (in Password field) :...
Rackspace just released the public beta for the UK version of Rackspace Cloud. The UK Rackspace Cloud doesn’t have the same auth server as the US Cloud so there is a few change you need to do to support the UK Rackspace Cloud. This is the same way Amazon has different zone for EC2 we have now different geographical zone between the US and now the UK. If you access directly, you just need to adjust the Auth URL in your code to go to :...
Lately I had to spawn some cloud servers and automatically customise them. I have used the python-cloudservers library and installed it automatically with pypi (works for Debian/Ubuntu you may want to check for other distros): pypi-install python-cloudservers From there writing the script was pretty straight forward, I needed to know what type of CloudServers I wanted which in my case the smallest was good enough which is number 1 for me....
I don’t have to use much of the Windows Operating System except when I have to synchronize my Garmin GPS to use the excellent SportsTrack software for my fitness training. I wanted to get safe and backup my SportsTrack ’logbook’ directly to Rackspace Cloud Files; while this is easy to do from Linux using some other script I made but I haven’t had anything at hand for Windows without having to install bunch of Unix tools....
Lately I had to do a lot of works with the VMware VCloud product and since the python API did not seem available and I did not have the courage to use the PHP API I had to do most of the API works with Java. I never did any Java before and while I have found Eclipse+Java development surprisingly pleasant and easy to use/learn my favourite are still Emacs+Python....