RackSpace support

[Patrick Hetu]

> > There is no SecurityGroup in RackSpace.
>
> If the global firewaller mode isn't enough to work around this, we
> probably need a disabled firewaller mode too. What did you do for
> this?


I just comment the security groups code for the test.


> > The catalog returned with the token by Keystone had:
> >
> > * a different tenantid for object-store and compute
>
> That's odd. What impact did this actually have?


I get an error that object-store or compute service was not found depending
on which
one I choose. I have attached the json response if you want to see.


> > * The compute service twice (v1.0, v2)
>
> We should pick out the right version in goose, lp:1218218.
>
> > The retry-after header is a complete date/time string instead of the
> > expected float.
>
> Apparently valid, lp:1218223.
>
> <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.37>
>
> > In RackSpace's Ubuntu images cloud-init is not installed by default
> > so you have to create a custom image and bootrap with it.
> > For that you need to create public container (cdn) with the metadata.
> >
> > I discovered that the userdata field doesn't exist in the API but there
> > is a field named "personality" that is doing more or less the same thing.
>
> It's not the same thing really, but can be used to do file injection.
> However, without the metadata service, don't you still need to tell
> cloud-init about the alternative data source?


I'm not sure, I found that blog post and was planning trying that:

http://andyleonard.com/2011/11/28/deploying-ubuntu-on-rackspace-using-fog-and-cloud-init/


> > So I've put the user-data in the personnality field but now
> > I'm getting a 413 error (Request Entity Too Large).
>
> Did the cloud-config get gzip compressed, or was it given as raw yaml?


I use what juju-core is sending by default. base64 encoded.


>
> Martin
>
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