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Random stuff
This was a good execise to understand the HTTP/REST base cloud API Rackspace has. It helped to understand and see in practice how the fist generation Racspace Cloud API works on a HTTP/REST level. This script shows how you can construct the GET/POST/DELETE requests according the the API specification to achive expected results.
- [How to create a Cloud Server using Rackspace API] ( http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/how-to-use-first-generation-of.html )
- [How to use the first generation of Rackspace Cloud Server API] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/how-to-create-cloud-server-using.html)
Usualy it is not necessry to write code on such a low level. There is a python library that exposes pythonic object related interface to work with the API.
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First Gen Cloud (base on Mosso code) [ python-cloudservers ] (https://github.com/rackspace/python-cloudservers)
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Next Gen Cloud (base on Openstack) [ python-novaclient ] (https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient)
- [Automatic debugging session of a programs in C and the gdb analyse of its core dumps] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/automatic-debugging-session-of-programs.html )
- [Configuration Management and DB2 parameters] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/configuration-management-and-db2.html)
- [tcpdump wrapper for all network and systems troubleshooter] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/tcpdump-wrapper-for-all-network-and.html)
- [How to filter and dump in clear text http requests and responses from the network dump using the cli program tshark ] ( http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/how-to-filter-and-dump-in-clear-text.html )
- [Basic tutorial on how to connect and debug Cloud API for the NextGene (Openstack based) or FirsGen (build by Mosso) Rackspace cloud infrastructure] ( http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/basic-tutorial-on-how-to-connect-and.html )
- [How to calculate a number of new SSL/TCP connections per every 10ms] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/how-to-calculate-number-of-new-ssltcp.html)
- [How to manually create shadow password for a user in Linux] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-manually-create-shadow-password.html)
- [How to create a PTR DNS record on Rackspace Cloud] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/how-to-create-ptr-on-rackspace-cloud.html)
- [Dirty trick how to analysis ASA performance based on interface overruns and underruns] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/dirty-trick-how-to-analysis-asa.html)
- [How to automatically prefill command on the Linux bash] (http://rtomaszewski.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/how-to-automatically-prefill-command-on.html)