# rax\_cbs module question

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/rax-cbs-module-question/15329>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 25, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rax-cbs-module-question/15329 "2014-05-25T22:19:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Prescott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Prescott](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jimmy_Prescott)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rax-cbs-module-question/15329/1 "2014-05-25T22:19:46Z")

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Hello!

I am trying to use the rax\_cbs module to create a cloud block storage volume in Rackspace Cloud. Pyrax is working as I am having no problems launching cloud servers using the rax module. Here is the issue I am facing. I think it may have something do with hosts: localhost but I am not certain what I am missing here. I am using the example straight from the docs slightly edited:

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rax-cbs-module-question/15329/2 "2014-05-26T00:29:54Z")

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Jimmy,

I’m looking into this. Something may have changed in pyrax since the addition of this module. I believe it is likely going to require a change to the rax\_cbs module to resolve the issue.

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rax-cbs-module-question/15329/3 "2014-05-26T00:41:54Z")

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Pull request has been created: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7542](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7542)

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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Prescott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Prescott](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jimmy_Prescott)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rax-cbs-module-question/15329/4 "2014-05-26T01:51:23Z")

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Sounds good! Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rax-cbs-module-question/15329/5 "2014-05-27T19:54:59Z")

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Already merged in by James, thanks Matt!