[chiglug] rax.py

[Jim Campbell]

Would it be good to see if someone from Rackspace could give a talk on
using Ansible with Rackspace? It seems as though their own documentation
is a bit lacking on this, and that it might be beneficial for them to
get more info out there on this topic.

Maybe for September or October?


On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 03:05 PM, sten wrote:
> I found a rax.py buried deep in the Ansible repos, and copied it to
> the top of the chicagolug-ansible repo. With that as my inventory (the
> ansible.cfg in the repo points to it, so you don't have to specify -
> i), I put credentials in ~/.rackspace_cloud_credentials like this:
>
> [rackspace_cloud]
>
> username = <username> api_key = <key> To confirm, try "python rax.py
> --list" - you may get a lot of "InsecureRequestWarning"'s, but then
> you'll get a list of everything you can see in Rackspace.
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:58 PM, sheila miguez
> <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Peter Baumgarten <me at peter-
>> baumgarten.com> wrote:
>>> get rax.py, which one to use, since I have found multiple rax.py
>>> scripts. Also what to do with the script once I find one that works.
>>> I was hoping I could from other people that already have ansible
>>> setup on rackspace on what they were doing.  Sorry for the
>>> confustion and I hope this clears things up.
>>
>> I have not figured this out entirely yet. Here are my working
>> notes/experiment. I am not using any special rackspace stuff with
>> ansible yet.
>>
>> https://github.com/pyvideo/richard-ansible/tree/master/rackspace I'd
>> also appreciate the help.
>>
>>
>> --
>> shekay at pobox.com
>>
>>
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