README.md

Using the Rackspace provider in pkgcloud

The Rackspace provider in pkgcloud supports the following services:

• Compute (Cloud Servers)
• Storage (Cloud Files)
• Databases (Cloud Databases)
• DNS (Cloud DNS) (beta)
• Block Storage (Cloud Block Storage) (beta)
• Orchestration (Cloud Orchestration) (beta)
• Load Balancers (Cloud Load Balancers) (beta)
• Network (Cloud Networks) (beta)

Getting Started with Compute

We've provided a simple compute example where it creates a couple of compute instances.

Authentication

For all of the Rackspace services, you create a client with the same options:

var client = require('pkgcloud').compute.createClient({
    provider: 'rackspace',
    username: 'your-user-name',
    apiKey: 'your-api-key'
});

In addition to your apiKey, you could alternately provide your password as an option to createClient.

Authentication Endpoints and Regions

All of the Rackspace createClient calls have a few options that can be provided:

region

region specifies which region of a service to use. Different services have different regions enabled, and DNS doesn't require a region at all. The current list of regions is:

• DFW (Dallas, Texas)
• ORD (Chicago, Illinois)
• IAD (Washington, DC)
• LON (London, UK)
• SYD (Sydney, Austrailia)
• HKG (Hong Kong, China)

Specifying a custom region

var client = require('pkgcloud').compute.createClient({
    provider: 'rackspace',
    username: 'your-user-name',
    apiKey: 'your-api-key',
    region: 'ORD'
});

authUrl

authUrl specifies the authentication endpoint used to create a token for your Rackspace client. By default, this is set to the Global endpoint: https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com.

Authenticating against the London endpoint

var client = require('pkgcloud').compute.createClient({
    provider: 'rackspace',
    username: 'your-user-name',
    apiKey: 'your-api-key',
    authUrl: 'https://lon.identity.api.rackspacecloud.com'
});

Tokens and Expiration

When you make your first call to a Rackspace provider, your client is authenticated transparent to your API call. Rackspace will issue you a token, with an expiration. When that token expires, the client will automatically re-authenticate and retrieve a new token. The caller shouldn't have to worry about this happening.

Internal URLs

As part of the options, you can tell pkgcloud to use the Internal (Service Net) URLs for a service, if possible.

var client = require('pkgcloud').storage.createClient({
    provider: 'rackspace',
    username: 'your-user-name',
    apiKey: 'your-api-key',
    useInternal: true
});

This setting is explicit. If you set it to true, and you have no connectivity to the internal URL for a service, your connections will timeout.