[chiglug] rax.py

sten me at sud0.com
Tue Aug 4 20:18:47 UTC 2015


I know they use it extensively internally, that could be interesting .
On Aug 4, 2015 3:14 PM, "Jim Campbell" <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:

> 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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