rack (unmaintained)

Command-line interface for the Rackspace Cloud.

rack provides a consistent interface for interacting with the Rackspace Cloud. For example, creating a new server:

$ rack servers instance create \
    --name my-server \
    --image-id 5ed162cc-b4eb-4371-b24a-a0ae73376c73 \
    --flavor-id general1-1 \
    --keypair my-laptop

ID		9818861f-2f14-437f-89b0-a36dfa1831b7
AdminPass	4vLb2PiqUGdP

Build From Source

Make sure you have Go installed and the GOPATH environment variable set.

go get github.com/rackspace/rack
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/rackspace/rack
./script/build

Setting Authentication Credentials

rack has a number of ways of getting credentials configured. The easiest way is to use rack configure to setup a profile:

$ rack configure

    This interactive session will walk you through creating
    a profile in your configuration file. You may fill in all or none of the
    values.

    Rackspace Username: iamacat
    Rackspace API key: secrets
    Rackspace Region: IAD
    Profile Name (leave blank to create a default profile):

This will create a configuration file at ~/.rack/config which will store your credentials. When using the default profile, you don't need to specify the profile:

rack servers instance list

However, if you've named a profile, you can use the --profile flag to specify it explicitly:

rack servers instance list --profile staging

Environment Variables

In addition to using the config file, you can also use environment variables. The following environment variables are supported:

RS_REGION_NAME (DFW, IAD, ORD, LON, SYD, HKG)
RS_USERNAME (Your Rackspace username)
RS_API_KEY (Your Rackspace API key)

Command-line

Lastly, you can also set your authentication credentials as flags:

$ rack servers instance list --username user1 --api-key 123456789 --region DFW

Precedence

rack will first look for credentials as flags. Secondly, rack will use a named profile, or default if there is a default profile. Lastly, rack will look for environment variables.

Bash Completion

At any time, you can run rack init which will create the auto-completion file in ~/.rack/bash_autocomplete and add it to ~/.bash_profile. You'll need to restart your terminal session to enable auto-completion.

For command completion on Windows, please see the command completion section on the configuration page of our documentation.