Rackspace Private Cloud?

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Hi all,

We’re starting up with a Rackspace Private Cloud soon, and am wondering if anyone has any experience with it and Ansible. Does the rax module work for private cloud? Or should I just use the generic OpenStack stuff?

Thanks,
Nick

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Nick,

The rax modules are not designed (currently) to work with other OpenStack clouds, only the Rackspace Public Cloud. This is on my radar for evaluating, and may be possible without too much work.

In the mean time, the generic OpenStack modules are what you will want.

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Hi Matt,
Can you post an update here if you do get a chance to take a look at this?
I’m starting to do the same thing as Nick and was hoping to test some things out on Public Cloud while my Private Cloud is being built.

Thanks!
Nathan

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Nathan, Absolutely.

I actually have been working on this for around a week now and testing it out. I submitted a pull request today to enable this functionality.

You can see the pull request at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/5806

The next thing I would need to potentially look at is the rax.py inventory plugin. I haven’t had an opportunity as of yet to think that though fully, but hope to look into it soon.

This is on my list of priorities, as I do see this as important for Rackspace customers to be able to largely use the same modules in public cloud as they will in private OpenStack clouds as well.

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Thanks Matt! I’m brand new to Rackspace, but if there’s anything I can do to help, please let me know.

-Nathan