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Using the Rackspace provider in pkgcloud

The Rackspace provider in pkgcloud supports the following services:

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.