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#Next Generation Cloud Servers™ (compute_v2)

This document explains how to get started using Next Gneration Cloud Servers™ with Fog. It assumes you have read the Getting Started with Fog and the Rackspace Open Cloud document.

Starting irb console

Start by executing the following command:

irb

Once irb has launched you need to require the Fog library.

If using Ruby 1.8.x execute:

require 'rubygems'
require 'fog'

If using Ruby 1.9.x execute:

require 'fog'

Create Service

Next, create a connection to the Next Gen Cloud Servers™:

service = Fog::Compute.new({
	:provider            => 'Rackspace',         # Rackspace Fog provider
	:rackspace_username  => RACKSPACE_USER_NAME, # Your Rackspace Username
	:rackspace_api_key   => RACKSPACE_API,       # Your Rackspace API key
	:version => :v2,                             # Use Next Gen Cloud Servers
	:rackspace_endpoint => Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::DFW_ENDPOINT, # Optional
	:connection_options => {} # Optional
})

To learn more about obtaining cloud credentials refer to the Getting Started with Fog and the Rackspace Open Cloud document.

By default Fog::Compute will connect to the DFW region. You can specify alternative regions using the key :rackspace_endpoint with one of the following values:

Value	Location
Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::DFW_ENDPOINT	Dallas Region
Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::ORD_ENDPOINT	Chicago Region
Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::LON_ENDPOINT	London Region

Note: AFog::Compute instance is needed for the desired region.

Optional Connection Parameters

Fog supports passing additional connection parameters to its underlying HTTP library (Excon) using :connection_options.

Key	Description
:connect_timeout	Connection timeout (default: 60 seconds)
:read_timeout	Read timeout for connection (default: 60 seconds)
:write_timeout	Write timeout for connection (default: 60 seconds)
:proxy	Proxy for HTTP and HTTPS connections
:ssl_ca_path	Path to SSL certificate authorities
:ssl_ca_file	SSL certificate authority file
:ssl_verify_peer	SSL verify peer (default: true)

Fog Abstractions

Fog provides both a model and request abstraction. The request abstraction provides the most efficient interface and the model abstraction wraps the request abstraction to provide a convenient ActiveModel like interface.

Request Layer

The request abstraction maps directly to the Next Gen Cloud Servers™ API. It provides the most efficient interface to the Rackspace Open Cloud.

To see a list of requests supported by the service:

service.requests

This returns:

:list_servers, :get_server, :create_server, :update_server, :delete_server, :change_server_password, :reboot_server, :rebuild_server, :resize_server, :confirm_resize_server, :revert_resize_server, :list_images, :get_image, :list_flavors, :get_flavor, :attach_volume, :get_attachment, :list_attachments, :delete_attachment

Example Request

To request a list of flavors:

response = service.list_flavors

This returns in the following Excon::Response:

<Excon::Response:0x007fe4b2ea2f38 @body={"flavors"=>[{"id"=>"2", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"512MB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"3", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/3", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/3", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"1GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"4", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/4", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/4", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"2GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"5", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/5", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/5", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"4GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"6", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/6", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/6", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"8GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"7", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/7", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/7", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"15GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"8", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/8", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/8", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"30GB Standard Instance"}]}, @headers={"Date"=>"Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:14:45 GMT", "Content-Length"=>"1697", "Content-Type"=>"application/json", "X-Compute-Request-Id"=>"req-0a1e8532-19b3-4993-8b48-cf2d9efe078c", "Server"=>"Jetty(8.0.y.z-SNAPSHOT)"}, @status=200>

To view the status of the response:

response.status

Note: Fog is aware valid HTTP response statuses for each request type. If an unexpected HTTP response status occurs, Fog will raise an exception.

To view response header:

response.body

This will return:

{"flavors"=>[{"id"=>"2", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"512MB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"3", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/3", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/3", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"1GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"4", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/4", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/4", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"2GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"5", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/5", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/5", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"4GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"6", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/6", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/6", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"8GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"7", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/7", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/7", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"15GB Standard Instance"}, {"id"=>"8", "links"=>[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/8", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/8", "rel"=>"bookmark"}], "name"=>"30GB Standard Instance"}]}

To learn more about Compute request methods refer to rdoc. To learn more about Excon refer to Excon GitHub repo.

Model Layer

Fog models behave in a manner similar to ActiveModel. Models will generally respond to create, save, persisted?, destroy, reload and attributes methods. Additionally, fog will automatically create attribute accessors.

Here is a summary of common model methods:

Method	Description
create	Accepts hash of attributes and creates object. Note: creation is a non blocking call and you will be required to wait for a valid state before using resulting object.
save	Saves object. Note: not all objects support updating object.
persisted?	Returns true if the object has been persisted.
destroy	Destroys object. Note: this is a non blocking call and object deletion might not be instantaneous.
reload	Updates object with latest state from service.
ready?	Returns true if object is in a ready state and able to perform actions. This method will raise an exception if object is in an error state.
attributes	Returns a hash containing the list of model attributes and values.
identity	Returns the identity of the object. Note: This might not always be equal to object.id.
wait_for	This method periodically reloads model and then yields to specified block until block returns true or a timeout occurs.

The remainder of this document details the model abstraction.

List Images

To retrieve a list of available images:

service.images

This returns a collection of Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Image models:

 <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Images
  [
    <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Image
      id="8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd",
      name="Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)",
      created=nil,
      updated=nil,
      state=nil,
      user_id=nil,
      tenant_id=nil,
      progress=nil,
      minDisk=nil,
      minRam=nil,
      metadata=nil,
      disk_config=nil,
      links=[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/images/8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/images/8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd", "rel"=>"bookmark"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.images.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/images/8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd", "type"=>"application/vnd.openstack.image", "rel"=>"alternate"}]
    >,
    <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Image
      id="992ba82c-083b-4eed-9c26-c54473686466",
      name="Windows Server 2012 + SharePoint Foundation 2013 with SQL Server 2012 Standard",
      created=nil,
      updated=nil,
      state=nil,
      user_id=nil,
      tenant_id=nil,
      progress=nil,
      minDisk=nil,
      minRam=nil,
      metadata=nil,
      disk_config=nil,
      links=[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/images/992ba82c-083b-4eed-9c26-c54473686466", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/images/992ba82c-083b-4eed-9c26-c54473686466", "rel"=>"bookmark"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.images.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/images/992ba82c-083b-4eed-9c26-c54473686466", "type"=>"application/vnd.openstack.image", "rel"=>"alternate"}]
    >,
…

Note: In order to speed up access service.images does not retrieve all attribute values. To retrieve additional details you will either need to reload each individual image or use the request abstraction.

Get Image

To retrieve individual image:

service.images.get "8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd"

This returns an Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Image instance:

 <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Image
  id="8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd",
  name="Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)",
  created="2012-11-27T15:27:08Z",
  updated="2012-11-28T14:35:21Z",
  state="ACTIVE",
  user_id=nil,
  tenant_id=nil,
  progress=100,
  minDisk=10,
  minRam=512,
  metadata={"os_distro"=>"ubuntu", "com.rackspace__1__visible_core"=>"1", "com.rackspace__1__build_rackconnect"=>"1", "auto_disk_config"=>"True", "com.rackspace__1__options"=>"0", "image_type"=>"base", "org.openstack__1__os_version"=>"12.10", "os_version"=>"12.10", "rax_options"=>"0", "com.rackspace__1__visible_rackconnect"=>"1", "org.openstack__1__os_distro"=>"org.ubuntu", "com.rackspace__1__visible_managed"=>"1", "com.rackspace__1__build_core"=>"1", "arch"=>"x86-64", "os_type"=>"linux", "org.openstack__1__architecture"=>"x64", "com.rackspace__1__build_managed"=>"1"},
  disk_config="AUTO",
  links=[{"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/images/8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/images/8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd", "rel"=>"bookmark"}, {"href"=>"https://ord.images.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/images/8a3a9f96-b997-46fd-b7a8-a9e740796ffd", "type"=>"application/vnd.openstack.image", "rel"=>"alternate"}]
>

Note: This request populates all Image attributes.

List Flavors

To retrieve a list of available flavors:

service.images

This returns a collection of Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Flavor models:

<Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Flavors
[
  <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Flavor
    id="2",
    name="512MB Standard Instance",
    ram=nil,
    disk=nil,
    vcpus=nil,
    links=[{"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"bookmark"}]
  >,
  <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Flavor
    id="3",
    name="1GB Standard Instance",
    ram=nil,
    disk=nil,
    vcpus=nil,
    links=[{"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/3", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/3", "rel"=>"bookmark"}]
  >,
…

Note: In order to speed up access service.flavors does not retrieve all attribute values. To retrieve additional details you will either need to reload each individual flavor or use the request abstraction.

Get Flavor

To retrieve individual flavor:

service.flavor.get 2

This returns a Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Flavor instance:

<Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Flavor
id="2",
name="512MB Standard Instance",
ram=512,
disk=20,
vcpus=1,
links=[{"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/flavors/2", "rel"=>"bookmark"}]
>

Note: This request populates all Flavor attributes.

List Servers

To retrieve a list of available servers:

service.servers

This returns a collection of Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Servers models:

<Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Servers
[
  <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server
    id="6a273531-8ee4-4bef-ad1a-baca963f8bbb",
    name="rax-example",
    created="2013-01-17T22:28:14Z",
    updated="2013-01-17T22:31:19Z",
    host_id="7361c18d94a9933039dae57ae07b0a39fdb39ea3775a25329086531f",
    state="ACTIVE",
    progress=100,
    user_id="296063",
    tenant_id="772045",
    links=[{"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/servers/6a273531-8ee4-4bef-ad1a-baca963f8bbb", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/servers/6a273531-8ee4-4bef-ad1a-baca963f8bbb", "rel"=>"bookmark"}],
    metadata={},
    personality=nil,
    ipv4_address="198.101.255.186",
    ipv6_address="2001:4800:780e:0510:0fe1:75e8:ff04:c4a0",
    disk_config="AUTO",
    bandwidth=[],
    addresses={"public"=>[{"version"=>4, "addr"=>"198.101.255.186"}, {"version"=>6, "addr"=>"2001:4800:780e:0510:0fe1:75e8:ff04:c4a0"}], "private"=>[{"version"=>4, "addr"=>"10.180.22.165"}]},
    flavor_id="2",
    image_id="33e21646-43ed-407e-9dbf-7c7873fccd9a"
  >,
…

Get Server

To return an individual server:

service.servers.get "6a273531-8ee4-4bef-ad1a-baca963f8bbb"

This returns a Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server instance:

<Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Servers
[
  <Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server
    id="6a273531-8ee4-4bef-ad1a-baca963f8bbb",
    name="rax-example",
    created="2013-01-17T22:28:14Z",
    updated="2013-01-17T22:31:19Z",
    host_id="7361c18d94a9933039dae57ae07b0a39fdb39ea3775a25329086531f",
    state="ACTIVE",
    progress=100,
    user_id="296063",
    tenant_id="772045",
    links=[{"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/servers/6a273531-8ee4-4bef-ad1a-baca963f8bbb", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/servers/6a273531-8ee4-4bef-ad1a-baca963f8bbb", "rel"=>"bookmark"}],
    metadata={},
    personality=nil,
    ipv4_address="198.101.255.186",
    ipv6_address="2001:4800:780e:0510:0fe1:75e8:ff04:c4a0",
    disk_config="AUTO",
    bandwidth=[],
    addresses={"public"=>[{"version"=>4, "addr"=>"198.101.255.186"}, {"version"=>6, "addr"=>"2001:4800:780e:0510:0fe1:75e8:ff04:c4a0"}], "private"=>[{"version"=>4, "addr"=>"10.180.22.165"}]},
    flavor_id="2",
    image_id="33e21646-43ed-407e-9dbf-7c7873fccd9a"
  >,
...

Create Server

To create a server:

flavor = service.flavors.first
image = service.images.first
server = service.servers.create(:name => 'fog-doc', :flavor_id => flavor.id, :image_id => image.id)

This will return a Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server instance:

<Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server
id="8ff308a6-e04a-4602-b991-ed526ab3b6be",
name="fog-server",
created=nil,
updated=nil,
host_id=nil,
state=nil,
progress=nil,
user_id=nil,
tenant_id=nil,
links=[{"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/servers/8ff308a6-e04a-4602-b991-ed526ab3b6be", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/servers/8ff308a6-e04a-4602-b991-ed526ab3b6be", "rel"=>"bookmark"}],
metadata=nil,
personality=nil,
ipv4_address=nil,
ipv6_address=nil,
disk_config="AUTO",
bandwidth=nil,
addresses=nil,
flavor_id=2,
image_id="3afe97b2-26dc-49c5-a2cc-a2fc8d80c001"
>

Notice that your server contains several nil attributes. To see the latest status, reload the instance like so:

server.reload

You can see that the server is currently 17% built:

Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server
id="8ff308a6-e04a-4602-b991-ed526ab3b6be",
name="fog-server",
created="2013-01-18T16:15:41Z",
updated="2013-01-18T16:16:14Z",
host_id="775837108e45aa3f2a58527c9c3b6160838078e83148f07906c933ca",
state="BUILD",
progress=17,
user_id="296063",
tenant_id="772045",
links=[{"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2/772045/servers/8ff308a6-e04a-4602-b991-ed526ab3b6be", "rel"=>"self"}, {"href"=>"https://dfw.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/772045/servers/8ff308a6-e04a-4602-b991-ed526ab3b6be", "rel"=>"bookmark"}],
metadata={},
personality=nil,
ipv4_address="",
ipv6_address="",
disk_config="AUTO",
bandwidth=[],
addresses={"public"=>[{"version"=>4, "addr"=>"198.61.209.78"}, {"version"=>6, "addr"=>"2001:4800:7810:0512:0fe1:75e8:ff04:94e4"}], "private"=>[{"version"=>4, "addr"=>"10.181.13.198"}]},
flavor_id="2",
image_id="3afe97b2-26dc-49c5-a2cc-a2fc8d80c001"

You will be unable to perform any actions to this server until it reaches an ACTIVE state. Since this is true for most server actions, Fog provides the convenience method wait_for.

Fog can wait for the server to become ready as follows:

server.wait_for { ready? }

Note: The Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server instance returned from the create method contains a password attribute. The password attribute will NOT be present in subsequent retrievals either through service.servers or server.servers.get my_server_id.

Additional Parameters

The create method also supports the following key values:

Key	Description
:disk_config	The disk configuration value (AUTO or MANUAL). Refer to Next Gen Server API documentation - Disk Configuration Extension.
:metadata	Hash containing server metadata.
:personality	File path and contents. Refer to Next Gen Server API documentation - Server Personality.

Update Server

Next Gen Cloud Servers™ support updating the following attributes name, access_ipv4_address, and access_ipv6_address.

To update these attributes:

server.name = "batman"
server.access_ipv4_address = "10.0.0.1"
server.access_ipv6_address = "fdbb:1717:4533:7c89:0:0:0:1"
server.save

Additional information about server access addresses can be found here.

Note: Updating the server name does not change the host name. Names are not guaranteed to be unique.

Delete Server

To delete a server:

server.destroy

Note: The server is not immediately destroyed, but it does occur shortly there after.

Metadata

You can access metadata as an attribute on both Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Server and Fog::Compute::RackspaceV2::Metadata::Image. You can specify metadata during creation of a server or an image. Please refer to Create Server or Create Image sections for more information.

This example demonstrates how to iterate through a server's metadata:

server.metadata.each {|metadatum| puts "#{metadatum.key}: #{metadatum.value}" }

You can update and retrieve metadata in a manner similar to a hash:

server.metadata["os_type"]

server.metadata["installed_ruby"] = "MRI 1.9.3"

Metadata also responds to save and reload as follows:

server.metadata.save

server.metadata.reload

Change Admin Password

To change the administrator password:

server.change_admin_password "superSecure"

Reboot

To perform a soft reboot:

server.reboot

To perform a hard reboot:

server.reboot 'HARD'

Rebuild

Rebuild removes all data on the server and replaces it with the specified image. The id and all IP addresses remain the same.

To rebuild a server:

image = service.images.first 
server.rebuild image.id

Additionally, the rebuild method will take a second parameter containing a hash with the following values:

Key	Description
name	Name of Server
flavorRef	Flavor id
accessIPv4	IPv4 access address
accessIPv6	IPv6 access address
metadata	Hash containing server metadata
personality	File path and contents. Refer to Next Gen Server API documentation - Server Personality.
disk_config	The disk configuration value (AUTO or MANUAL). Refer to Next Gen Server API documentation - Disk Configuration Extension.

Resize

Resizing a server allows you to change the resources dedicated to the server.

To resize a server:

flavor_id = service.flavor[2].id 
server.resize flavor_id  #flavor_id should be your desired flavor

During the resize process the server will have a state of RESIZE. Once a server has completed resizing it will be in a VERIFY_RESIZE state.

You can use Fog's wait_for method to wait for this state as follows:

	server.wait_for { ready?('VERIFY_RESIZE', ['ACTIVE', 'ERROR']) }

In this case, wait_for is waiting for the server to become VERIFY_READY and will raise an exception if we enter an ACTIVE or ERROR state.

Once a server enters the VERIFY_RESIZE we will need to call confirm_resize to confirm the server was properly resized or revert_resize to rollback to the old size/flavor.

Note: A server will automatically confirm resize after 24 hours.

To confirm resize:

server.confirm_resize

To revert to previous size/flavor:

server.revert_resize

Create Image

To create an image of your server:

image = server.create_image "back-image-#{server.name}", :metadata => { :environment => 'development' }

You can use the second parameter to specify image metadata. This is an optional parameter.

During the imaging process, the image state will be SAVING. The image is ready for use when when state ACTIVE is reached. Fog can use wait_for to wait for an active state as follows:

image.wait_for { ready? }

List Attached Volumes

To list Cloud Block Volumes attached to server:

server.attachments

Attach Volume

To attach volume using the volume id:

server.attach_volume "0e7a706c-340d-48b3-802d-192850387f93"

If the volume id is unknown you can look it up using the Cloud Block Storage service. Start by creating a cbs_service similar to our Compute Service:

cbs_service = Fog::Rackspace::BlockStorage.new({
	:rackspace_username  => RACKSPACE_USER_NAME, # Your Rackspace Username
	:rackspace_api_key   => RACKSPACE_API        # Your Rackspace API key
})

volume = cbs_service.volumes.first
server.attach_volume volume, "/dev/xvdb" # name of device on server is optional

The attach_volume method accepts a volume id String or Fog::Rackspace::BlockStorage::Volume instance. This example also demonstrates passing in the optional device name. Valid device names are /dev/xvd[a-p].

Detach Volume

To detach a volume:

server.attachments.first.detach

Examples

Example code using Next Gen Cloud Servers™ can be found here.

Additional Resources

Support and Feedback

Your feedback is appreciated! If you have specific issues with the fog SDK, you should file an issue via Github.

For general feedback and support requests, send an email to: sdk-support@rackspace.com.

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