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....
I don’t really use much the GUI and always the command line so I don’t really use the Cloud File plugin I created for nautilus. So here is a shell script to upload to Rackspace Cloud Files and give you back a shortened URL of the public URL file. Great for quick sharing… You have to install the zenity binary first.. [Update: this is now available here https://github.com/chmouel/upcs]
Sometime ago I made a shell script to upload directly to Rackspace CF using the script capability of nautilus. While working well it did not offer the progress bar and was hard to update. I have made now as a proper python nautilus plugin which offer these features. The code is available here : http://github.com/chmouel/nautilus-cloud-files-plugin The old version is here, which is still a good example for uploading to Rackspace CF via the shell :...
I have just committed an experiment of a FTP Server answering to Cloud Files. It act completely transparently to be able to use any FTP Client to connect to cloud-files. There is probably a couple of bugs there but the basis of it seems to be working, please let me know if you find any problems with it. Usage By default it will bind to port 2021 and localhost to be able to be launched by user which can be changed via the command line option -p....
Last week I have posted an article explaining how to connect to Rackspace Cloud Files via Rackspace ServiceNET but I actually got it wrong as pointed by my great colleague exlt so I had to take it down until figured out how to fix it. I have add that feature properly to the PHP and Python API in version 1.5.0 to add a ‘servicenet’ argument to the connection and updated the blog post here :...
If you are a Rackspace customer and you are are planning to use Rackspace Cloud Files via it’s internal network (ServiceNet) so you don’t get billed for the bandwidth going over Cloud Files this is how you can do. The first thing is to make sure with your support team if your servers are connected to ServiceNet and if you have that connection then there is a small change to do in your code....
It’s really a collection of quickly written stuff put in the same file but at least if not useful for you it would give you an idea how the python-cloudfiles works. It is all available here : http://github.com/chmouel/cloud-files-helper
It seems that there is no much documentation about how to do rsync like backup with duplicty so here it is : Install python-cloudfiles from here http://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudfiles #!/bin/bash UPLOAD_TO_CONTAINER="backup" #adjust it as you like export CLOUDFILES_USERNAME=Your Username export CLOUDFILES_APIKEY=API_KEY_YOU_GOT export PASSPHRASE=The Passphrase for your encrypted backup duplicity /full/path cf+http://${UPLOAD_TO_CONTAINER} This should take care to upload the backup files to the backup container. It does that incrementally and detect the changes to your file system to upload....