ZendService\Rackspace¶

Introduction¶

The ZendService\Rackspace\Rackspace is a class that provides a simple API to manage the Rackspace services Cloud Files and Cloud Servers.

Note

Load balancers service

The load balancers service of Rackspace is not implemented yet. We are planning to release it in the next future.

Registering with Rackspace¶

Before you can get started with ZendService\Rackspace\Rackspace, you must first register for an account. Please see the Cloud services page on the Rackspace website for more information.

After registering, you can get the Username and the API Key from the Rackspace management console under the menu “Your Account” > “API Access”. These informations are required to use the ZendService\Rackspace\Rackspace classes.

Cloud Files¶

The Cloud Files is a service to store any files in a cloud environment. A user can store an unlimited quantity of files and each file can be as large as 5 gigabytes. The files can be private or public. The private files can be accessed using the API of Rackspace. The public files are accessed using a CDN (Content Delivery Network). Rackspace exposes a REST API to manage the Cloud Files.

ZendService\Rackspace\Files provides the following functionality:

Upload files programmatically for tight integration with your application

Enable Cloud Files CDN integration on any container for public distribution

Create Containers programmatically

Retrieve lists of containers and files

Cloud Servers¶

Rackspace Cloud Servers is a compute service that provides server capacity in the cloud. Cloud Servers come in different flavors of memory, disk space, and CPU.

ZendService\Rackspace\Servers provides the following functionality:

Create/delete new servers

List and get information on each server

Manage the public/private IP addresses of a server

Resize the server capacity

Reboot a server

Create new images for a server

Manage the backup of a server

Create a group of server to share the IP addresses for High Availability architecture

Available Methods¶

Eeach service class (Files, Servers) of Rackspace extends the ZendService\Rackspace\Rackspace abstract class. This class contains a set of public methods shared with all the service. This public methods are reported as follow:

authenticate

authenticate()

Authenticate the Rackspace API using the user and the key specified in the concrete class that extend ZendService\Rackspace\Rackspace. Return true in case of success and false in case of error.

setServiceNet

setServiceNet(boolean $useServiceNet = true)

Use the Rackspace ‘ServiceNet’ internal network.

getServiceNet

getServiceNet()

Are we using the Rackspace ‘ServiceNet’ internal network? Returns a boolean.

getAuthUrl

getAuthUrl()

Get the authentication URL of Rackspace. Returns a string.

getCdnUrl

getCdnUrl()

Get the URL for the CDN. Returns a string.

getErrorCode

getErrorCode()

Get the last HTTP error code. Returns a string.

getErrorMsg

getErrorMsg()

Get the last error message. Returns a string.

getHttpClient

getHttpClient()

Get the HTTP client used to call the API of the Rackspace. Returns a Zend\Http\Client instance.

getKey

getKey()

Get the authentication key. Returns a string.

getManagementUrl

getManagementUrl()

Get the URL for the management services. Returns a string.

getStorageUrl

getStorageUrl()

Get the URL for the storage (files) service. Returns a string.

getToken

getToken()

Get the token returned after a successful authentication. Returns a string.

getUser

getUser()

Get the user authenticated with the Rackspace service. Returns a string.

isSuccessful

isSuccessful()

Return true if the last service call was successful, false otherwise.

setAuthUrl

setAuthUrl(string $url)

Set the authentication URL to be used.

$url is the URL for the authentication

setKey

setKey(string $key)

Set the key for the API authentication.

$key is the key string for the authentication

setUser

setUser(string $user)

Set the user for the API authentication.

$user is the user string for the authentication