Quick Start: Rackspace Cloud

// get a context with rackspace that offers the portable BlobStore api
BlobStoreContext context = new BlobStoreContextFactory().createContext("cloudfiles-us", user, apikey);

// create a container in the default location
context.getBlobStore().createContainerInLocation(null, container);

// use the map interface for easy access to put/get things, keySet, etc.
context.createInputStreamMap(container).put("blob.txt", inputStream);

// when you need access to rackspace-specific features, use the provider-specific context
CloudFilesClient rackspaceClient = CloudFilesClient.class.cast(context.getProviderSpecificContext()
         .getApi());

// get a cdn uri for the container
URI cdnURI = rackspaceClient.enableCDN(container);

context.close();

import static org.jclouds.cloudservers.options.CreateServerOptions.Builder.withFile;
import static org.jclouds.cloudservers.options.ListOptions.Builder.*;

// get a context with rackspace that offers the portable ComputeService api
 ComputeServiceContext context = new ComputeServiceContextFactory().createContext("cloudservers-us", user, apikey,
                                                         ImmutableSet.<Module> of(new SshjSshClientModule()));

 // here's an example of the portable api

 // run a couple nodes accessible via group
 Set<? extends NodeMetadata> nodes = context.getComputeService().createNodesInGroup("webserver", 2);
 
 // when you need access to rackspace-specific features, use the provider-specific context
 CloudServersClient rackspaceClient = CloudServersClient.class.cast(context.getProviderSpecificContext()
          .getApi());
 
 
 // create a server with a new file called /etc/jclouds.txt and some metadata
 Map<String, String> metadata = ImmutableMap.of("jclouds", "rackspace");
 int imageId = 2;
 int flavorId = 1;
 Server server = rackspaceClient.createServer("myservername", imageId, flavorId,
        withFile("/etc/jclouds.txt", "rackspace".getBytes()).withMetadata(metadata));

 // list all of my servers including details such as metadata
 Set<Server> servers = rackspaceClient.listServers(withDetails());

 // list the id and name of my servers that were modified since yesterday
 servers = rackspaceClient.listServers(changesSince(yesterday));

 // list the id and name of images I have access to, starting at index 200 limited to 100 results.
 Set<Image> images = rackspaceClient.listImages(startAt(200).maxResults(100));

 context.close();