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Cloud Servers API Documentation

  • Article ID: 260
  • Last updated on May 20, 2013
  • Authored by: Rackspace Support
  • (9 Comments)

NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. You can access this interface from the New Cloud Control Panel by clicking your username in the upper-right of the control panel and selecting "Classic Cloud Control Panel".

To find the Rackspace Cloud Servers API, do the following (or click here)

1. Log into the Classic Cloud Control Panel

2. Click on Support on the Main Menu

3. Cick on Developer Resources in the Support menu

4. Download the appropriate documentation or guide a. Cloud Files Documentation – This is documentation for working with the Cloud Files API. You will want this if you are trying to build an application or tool that will need to upload or download files to or from Cloud Files.

b. Cloud Servers Documentation – Use this if you want to use the API to spawn or delete servers as well as obtain information on existing servers.

5. Once you have all the documentation you need you can log out of the Classic Cloud Control Panel.



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9 Comments

Isn't this also on http://docs.rackspace.com?
By Jason on Jul. 30, 2012

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By Richie on Jul. 30, 2012

This document is out of date it seems (doesn't look like that anymore), and more importantly it seems I can't find links to the Client Code anywhere! Is the Client Code no longer available? the site seems to suggest it should be, yet no links.
By JF on Jul. 30, 2012

The control panel was recently updated to point folks right to docs.rackspacecloud.com, I believe. We'll get this article updated to reflect the change.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "client code", but I admit I'm no API veteran. If you mean the language bindings, that document should be on the API page. If you mean a command-line client, there is a python package named "Nova client" that works with both the Rackspace Cloud API and with OpenStack Compute.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-novaclient
By jered.heeschen on Jul. 30, 2012

Yes I'm referring to the language bindings. The above document shows an image for "Client Code", which is the same thing as the API language bindings... BUT, these links do not exist anymore.
I followed those instructions but the new page (which is different looking) only has links to the API documentation, not to any client code / language bindings.

http://docs.rackspace.com/api/
By JF on Jul. 30, 2012

Yes, the new page does look different, and we will update this article to reflect the change. But the language bindings are available on the new site - just not in an HTML form right now. If you look under the "Cloud Servers" section you'll find a link to a PDF for the language bindings. To save some time, though, here's a direct link:

http://docs.rackspace.com/servers/api/v1.0/cs-bindguide-20090916.pdf
By jered.heeschen on Jul. 30, 2012

The links available just point to documentation (be they html or pdf).
Where are the actual language bindings; where are the libraries with code that I call from my code?
The images in the documentation above show links to those libraries, and I've downloaded them in the past from those links (months ago), but no links to them exist anymore - just links to the documentation only!
By JF on Jul. 30, 2012

Ah, I'm sorry about the misunderstanding JF.

Check here, and one of these repositories might be what you're after:

https://github.com/rackspace

We'll see if we can't get that link placed more prominently in the control panel or the web site. I had to dig around the docs to find it, and it should definitely be easier to find that link than it is.
By jered.heeschen on Jul. 30, 2012

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