Rackspace Cloud Servers Code Samples

Rackspace Cloud Servers Code Samples

Here we will provide samples for basic operations on CloudServersProvider.

CloudServersProvider requries we pass in CloudIdentity. We can create CloudIdentity by passing any 2 combination Username/Password or Username/APIKey.

var cloudIdentity = new CloudIdentity() { Username = "username", Password = "password" };

or

var cloudIdentity = new CloudIdentity() { APIKey = "apikey", Username = "username" };

For more information on IdentityProvider

There are 2 ways to pass in the identity credentials to CloudBlockStorageProvider:

1. In the constructor.
2. Into each method individually.

Our samples below will assume the identity has been passed into the constructor.

Listing available server images

var cloudServers = new CloudServersProvider(cloudIdentity);
var images = cloudServers.ListImages();

This returns IEnumerable<SimpleServerImage> with each SimpleServerImage containing values for the image name and ID. The ID is later used when creating a server.

Listing available server flavors

var cloudServers = new CloudServersProvider(cloudIdentity);
var flavors = cloudServers.ListFlavors();

This returns IEnumerable<Flavor> with each Flavor containing the values for the flavor name and ID. The ID is later used when creating a server.

Listing available server flavors - with details

var cloudServers = new CloudServersProvider(cloudIdentity);
var flavors = cloudServers.ListFlavorsWithDetails();

This returns IEnumerable<FlavorDetails> with each FlavorDetails containing the values for the flavor name and ID. The ID is later used when creating a server. It also contains RAM, disk and vCPU values.

Creating a server in the account's default region

var cloudServers = new CloudServersProvider(cloudIdentity);
var server = cloudServers.CreateServer("server-name", "image-id", "flavor-id");

This will return a NewServer object which will contain the default admin password. This is the only time the password can be retrieved from the server without resetting it

Retrieve server details

var cloudServers = new CloudServersProvider(cloudIdentity);
var server = cloudServers.GetDetails("server-id");

This will return a Server object containing all details of the cloud server.

Deleting a server

var cloudServers = new CloudServersProvider(cloudIdentity);
var server = cloudServers.DeleteServer("server-id");

Returns a bool indicating if the action was successful