How to create a Cloud Server using Rackspace API

Problem description

How to create a cloud server using cloud API.

Solution

A small script available at gitub [1] that uses available cloud API to login to the Rackspace cloud infrastructure. After login it issues necessary create request and creates a new cloud server. At the end prints the result on stdout.

Demonstration

• Standard output

# python rackspace_cloudserver.py -u user -k key run
creating new cloud server with a name: cstest1343077883
{
 "server": {
  "status": "BUILD", 
  "hostId": "50a21504e046275fa53877dc937ceab6", 
  "name": "cstest1343077883", 
  "adminPass": "KnB1Cu7t4cstest1343077883", 
  "metadata": {}, 
  "imageId": 112, 
  "progress": 0, 
  "flavorId": 1, 
  "id": 10196007, 
  "addresses": {
   "public": [
    "5.79.1.17"
   ], 
   "private": [
    "10.178.4.241"
   ]
  }
 }
}

• Verbose output 

# python rackspace_cloudserver.py -u user -k key -v run
debug[ 1]: user:  key: key;
debug[ 1]: http request
  lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com GET /v1.0
  headers: 
    X-Auth-Key: 391....aebe1
    X-Auth-User: user
debug[ 1]: http response
  204 No Content
  headers
    content-length: 0
    x-server-management-url: https://lon.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/10001641
    x-storage-token: 7e901...67a
    vary: X-Auth-Token,X-Auth-Key,X-Storage-User,X-Storage-Pass
    x-cdn-management-url: https://cdn3.clouddrive.com/v1/MossoCloudFS_c99f3ebf-f27d-4933-94b7-9e9ebf2bc7cd
    server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
    connection: Keep-Alive
    cache-control: s-maxage=85050
    date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:59:40 GMT
    x-storage-url: https://storage101.lon3.clouddrive.com/v1/MossoCloudFS_c99f3ebf-f27d-4933-94b7-9e9ebf2bc7cd
    x-auth-token: 7e90....1bc67a
    content-type: text/xml
debug[ 1]: read 0 from the server:
creating new cloud server with a name: cstest1343077180
debug[ 1]: http request
  lon.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com POST /v1.0/10001641/servers
  headers: 
    Content-Type: application/json
    X-Auth-Token: 7e901...bc67a
body:
   {"server": {"flavorId": 1, "name": "cstest1343077180", "imageId": 112}}
debug[ 1]: http response
  202 Accepted
  headers
    content-length: 272
    x-varnish: 1662239131
    age: 0
    vary: Accept, Accept-Encoding, X-Auth-Token
    server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
    connection: keep-alive
    via: 1.1 varnish
    cache-control: no-cache
    date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:59:45 GMT
    content-type: application/json
debug[ 1]: read 272 from the server:
{
 "server": {
  "status": "BUILD", 
  "hostId": "155a42778c64cf881c41ae5dc8a8bd0c", 
  "name": "cstest1343077180", 
  "adminPass": "4KUt5u3oXcstest1343077180", 
  "metadata": {}, 
  "imageId": 112, 
  "progress": 0, 
  "flavorId": 1, 
  "id": 10195995, 
  "addresses": {
   "public": [
    "5.79.1.129"
   ], 
   "private": [
    "10.178.18.97"
   ]
  }
 }
}

References
[1]  https://github.com/rtomaszewski/experiments/blob/master/rackspace_cloudserver.py