Uploaded August 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Talk given at PyTexas 2013 by Ed Leafe.
Cloud computing is changing the way that businesses think about their computing requirements. Instead of ordering hardware, waiting for delivery, allocating space in a data center, installing and wiring it up, and then configuring each piece of the system, you can now do the equivalent with a few clicks on a control panel, but that gets tedious. What's much more interesting is to do all of this programmatically, using our favorite language: Python!
This session will deep-dive into this topic by using pyrax, the Python SDK for the OpenStack and Rackspace Clouds. It will cover the as much of the following as time permits:
Getting your cloud account and credentials
Installing pyrax
Creating servers
Saving a customized server as a template image
Creating more servers on demand from your template images.
Creating, attaching, and imaging Block Storage volumes
Using private networks to create a bastion host setup
Managing these servers with a Load Balancer
Creating and managing Cloud Databases
Using pyrax to manage your DNS
Object storage and management using pyrax
Talk given at PyTexas 2013 by Ed Leafe.
Cloud computing is changing the way that businesses think about their computing requirements. Instead of ordering hardware, waiting for delivery, allocating space in a data center, installing and wiring it up, and then configuring each piece of the system, you can now do the equivalent with a few clicks on a control panel, but that gets tedious. What's much more interesting is to do all of this programmatically, using our favorite language: Python!
This session will deep-dive into this topic by using pyrax, the Python SDK for the OpenStack and Rackspace Clouds. It will cover the as much of the following as time permits:
Getting your cloud account and credentials
Installing pyrax
Creating servers
Saving a customized server as a template image
Creating more servers on demand from your template images.
Creating, attaching, and imaging Block Storage volumes
Using private networks to create a bastion host setup
Managing these servers with a Load Balancer
Creating and managing Cloud Databases
Using pyrax to manage your DNS
Object storage and management using pyrax
