Category:Rackspace

This category will be all about using Rackspace's various Cloud products and services. Although I work at Rackspace as a Linux Administrator, these articles are in no way meant to be anything close to an official documentation. These articles will simply be how I run things in my own way using the various Rackspace products and services.

Rackspace products and services

Note: This list is far from complete.

• Cloud Servers
• Cloud Files
• Cloud Block Storage (CBS)
• Cloud Databases (DBaaS)
• Cloud Monitoring (MaaS)
• Cloud Images
• Cloud Networks (NaaS)
• Rackspace API

Tools for interacting with Rackspace services

• Ansible
• supernova
• pyrax — SDK/CLI tool for interacting with most of Rackspace's Cloud products and services (via the API)
• turbolift — CLI tool for interacting with Cloud Files
• swift — CLI tool for interacting with Cloud Files
• swiftly — CLI tool for interacting with Cloud Files
• trove — CLI tool for interacting with Cloud Databases (DBaaS)

External links

Community articles I have written

• HOWTO: Change default Cloud Database configuration parameters
• HOWTO: Using the Cloud Images API to export/import images
• HOWTO: Boot from Cloud Block Storage Volume (BfV)
• HOWTO: Change timezone for Cloud Database instance
• HOWTO: Use iptables with CentOS 7
• HOWTO: send Cloud Monitoring SMS alerts to multiple phone numbers
• HOWTO: share images between Rackspace Cloud accounts
• HOWTO: create a Cloud Network and attach it to a Cloud Server

Other

• HOWTO: Setup Cloud Files and ACL (Access Control List)