Bulk Delete Rackspace Cloud Files data via API

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes it is necessary to delete all the content of the Cloud Files containers, however, the API does not have a proper method to delete the data and the containers on the same API call. Also, accoring to the documentation, you can only delete empty containers.

So, in cases where you need to delete the data and the containers at the same time, you should follow the next steps:

Download Turbolift, I know it is an old tool.

git clone https://github.com/cloudnull/turbolift
cd turbolift

In order to get and isolated installation, we are going to create a Python Virtual Environment (virtualenv)
```
mkvirtualenv turbolift
workon turbolift
```
Install the tool
```
pip install turbolift
```

Now, prior to start to play with the API calls, we need to grab some data to authenticate with the API:

Variable	Definition
USERNAME	This is the Rackspace Public Cloud username
APIKEY	This is your API-KEY
REGION	This is the Region where the Cloud Files are located (dfw, ord, iad, lon, hkg)
TOKEN	The TOKEN is generated after you get authenticated
ENDPOINT	This ENDPOINT is given also after you get authenticated

Next step, we are going to use cURL, to perform all the API calls:

First of all, get the TOKEN:

USERNAME=YOUR-USERNAME
APIKEY=YOUR-APIKEY
TOKEN=$(curl -s -XPOST https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens \
 -d'{"auth":{"RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":{"username":"'$USERNAME'","apiKey":"'$APIKEY'"}}}' \
 -H"Content-type:application/json" | jq '.access.token.id' | tr -d "\"")

Next step, get the ENDPOINT:

ENDPOINT=$(curl -s -XPOST https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens \
 -d'{"auth":{"RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":{"username":"'$CL_USERNAME'","apiKey":"'$APIKEY'"}}}' \
 -H"Content-type:application/json" | jq '.access.serviceCatalog[] | select((.name=="cloudFiles") or (.name=="cloudFilesCDN")) | {name} + .
 endpoints[] | .publicURL' | tr -d "\"" | grep -v cdn | grep -i $REGION)

In this case we are skipping all te CDN endpoints, but you can add them if is necessary.

With all the collected data, next step is use turbolift to delete the Cloud Files container and their data. To do it, I use a for-loop:

for i in $(curl -s -H "X-Auth-Token: $TOKEN" $ENDPOINT); do turbolift -u $USERNAME -a $APIKEY --os-rax-auth $REGION delete -c $i ; done

Now, you have all the Data and Cloud Files containers deleted on one region.

😄

My First Contribution to OpenStack project

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I been working since last year using Ansible for fun and to trying to get prepared to become a DevOps, so I found an excelent OpenStack project called ARA Records Ansible.

Ansible Logo

ARA Logo

Basically it is a project from the OpenStack community that makes it easier to understand and troubleshoot your Ansible roles and playbooks. If you want more information, please refer to the Documentation Page.

Anyhow, I just found a little bug on the Ansible Role to install ARA ansible-role-ara on Debian based distros and just send the patch to fix it.

Here is the link to my contribution.

And, as I am proud of my first commit on a big project here is the screenshot too:

My First OpenStack Contribution

I feel happy and motivated to still learn about this Open-Source project and a lot more.

😄

Openstack | Luis Cacho

Bulk Delete Rackspace Cloud Files data via API

My First Contribution to OpenStack project