Rumm is a command line interface and API to rackspace. You can use it to easily build and manage infrastructure for great good.
Authenticate with rackspace using your cloud credentials as follows:
rumm login
username: joe
password: ****
Default Region (Enter for ord):
logged in as joe, credentials written to ~/.rummrc
Now we can see the list of servers we have available:
$ rumm show servers
you don't have any servers, but you can create one by running:
rumm create server
Create the server:
rumm create server
created server divine-reef
id: 52415800-8b69-11e0-9b19-734f565bc83b, hostId: e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0, ip: 67.23.10.138, image: CentOS 5.2
For further help, including a full listing of commands, type:
rumm help
To access servers outside of your default region, you can prefix your rumm command with REGION=<region name>.
For example to list servers in IAD you would execute the following:
REGION=iad rumm show servers
See the official rumm website for more information, including documentation.