[chiglug] rax.py

[Peter Baumgarten]

I'm just going to use the rax.py from the chicagolug repo that sten put
there for now.  I would also like to hear from rackspace on how they use
ansible.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:18 PM, sten <me at sud0.com> wrote:

> 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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