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Getting started

Get your Rackspace credentials

You should have a Rackspace username and password. You'll be using these to access the cloud.

  1. Log in at https://mycloud.rackspace.com

  2. Write down the number that appears next to your login name in the top right-hand corner. In the example below, that's 12345.

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  3. Click on your login name on the top-right, then click on "Account Settings"

  4. Generate an API key if it's not there yet, and then click "Show" image

  5. Write down your API key.

Install OpenStack command-line tools

Install the OpenStack command-line tools on your local machine. It's best to install this within a Python virtualenv.

$ virtualenv openstack
$ source openstack/bin/activate
$ pip install rackspace-novaclient python-swiftclient

Create a valid openrc file for

Download the linked rax.openrc file, and fill in your username, account number, and API key. For example, if your had:

  • username jane.doe
  • account number 12345
  • API key 1c3cdf47937c40faa9f7a8ba5efa5560

Then edit the following lines

export OS_USERNAME=jane.doe
export OS_TENANT_NAME=12345
export OS_PASSWORD=1c3cdf47937c40faa9f7a8ba5efa5560
export OS_PROJECT_ID=12345

And the entire rax.openrc file should now look like:

export OS_AUTH_URL=https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/
export OS_AUTH_SYSTEM=rackspace
export OS_REGION_NAME=IAD
export OS_USERNAME=jane.doe
export OS_TENANT_NAME=12345
export OS_PASSWORD=1c3cdf47937c40faa9f7a8ba5efa5560
export OS_PROJECT_ID=12345
export OS_NO_CACHE=1

export ST_AUTH=https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0
export ST_USER=$OS_USERNAME
export ST_KEY=$OS_PASSWORD

Confirm compute client is working

Make sure the OpenStack Compute client (nova) is working by trying to list available images on Rackspace:

$ source rax.openrc
$ nova flavor-list

The output should look something like this:

+----+-------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| ID | Name                    | Memory_MB | Disk | Ephemeral | Swap | VCPUs | RXTX_Factor | Is_Public |
+----+-------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+
| 2  | 512MB Standard Instance | 512       | 20   | 0         | 512  | 1     | 80.0        | N/A       |
| 3  | 1GB Standard Instance   | 1024      | 40   | 0         | 1024 | 1     | 120.0       | N/A       |
| 4  | 2GB Standard Instance   | 2048      | 80   | 0         | 2048 | 2     | 240.0       | N/A       |
| 5  | 4GB Standard Instance   | 4096      | 160  | 0         | 2048 | 2     | 400.0       | N/A       |
| 6  | 8GB Standard Instance   | 8192      | 320  | 0         | 2048 | 4     | 600.0       | N/A       |
| 7  | 15GB Standard Instance  | 15360     | 620  | 0         | 2048 | 6     | 800.0       | N/A       |
| 8  | 30GB Standard Instance  | 30720     | 1200 | 0         | 2048 | 8     | 1200.0      | N/A       |
+----+-------------------------+-----------+------+-----------+------+-------+-------------+-----------+

Confirm object storage client is working

Make sure the OpenStack Object Storage client (swift) is working by checking the status of your object storage account:

$ source rax.openrc
$ swift stat

The output should look something like this:

   Account: MossoCloudFS_4911155b-32a5-317a-d0ef-6db8f4887013
Containers: 0
   Objects: 0
     Bytes: 0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
X-Timestamp: 1383359439.45298
X-Trans-Id: txf8f114e6ecac49db9c5e0-00527463cfiad3
X-Put-Timestamp: 1383359439.45298

Next exercise is compute.