
Using Supernova
There are four ways to interact with the Rackspace cloud API to manage your services. They are: Rackspace CLI Nova CLI Supernova CLI Curl Supernova is essentially a wrapper to Nova, but unlike Nova, supports […]
There are four ways to interact with the Rackspace cloud API to manage your services. They are: Rackspace CLI Nova CLI Supernova CLI Curl Supernova is essentially a wrapper to Nova, but unlike Nova, supports […]
If you create a virtual machine using the CentOS 7 image, you will initially be able to log in but if you perform a system update and then reboot, you may well find you are […]
In a previous article I demonstrated how you can install, configure and use the nova client to manage your Rackspace cloud via the command line using the Restful API. The nova client is great but […]
Install XWiki and all dependant programs on a 4 GB cloud server. This means: 1) Java 2) Tomcat 3) MySQL/MariaDB 4) XWiki 5) Nginx Here we use Nginx as a reverse proxy to firstly redirect […]
In a previous post, I talked about my experience using X2Go with XFCE4 and Lubuntu. Here is how it was achieved….. On the Server Here I’m using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but you can install X2Go […]
So I wanted to install a Java desktop application and have it publicly available on a server somewhere. Using a light weight desktop environment on one of my cloud servers made sense – provided that […]
Log into the Rackspace cloud control panel and click on on the DNS tab at the top of the screen. Then click on Create Domain, fill out the details, and click Create Domain again to […]
NewRelic is a real-time monitoring tool that has a number of useful plugins. Here I am installing the server monitoring agent to keep track of my servers health. To install the server monitoring agent, first […]
The Rackspace cloud monitoring agent allows you to monitor CPU, memory, filesystem usage and system processes. It does this by collecting information about the system and pushing it out to Rackspace Cloud Monitoring web services, […]
Create a Private Cloud Network Create an isolated cloud network. Here I am using the supernova client to communicate with the Rackspace OpenStack API. Take note of the id – you’ll need it shortly! Create […]
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