Category: Cloud

Secure Hosting On RackSpace Cloud

August 23, 2013

We’re going to build a highly secure hosting environment on RackSpace Cloud using Cloud Networks and the new Brocade Vyatta vRouter image. The diagrams shows the target configuration: There are 4 networks: Public – this is the RackSpace Public Cloud/Internet network. The vRouter connects via eth0 to this network with public address of 1.1.1.1 LocalPrivate – this is a private Cloud Network that connects the vRouter and the servers. This network uses the private 192.168.3.0/24 subnet. DBPrivate – this is a private Cloud Network that connects the web and database servers. This network uses the private 192.168.4.0/24 subnet. Service – this is RackSpaces multi-tenent management network. This network is not being used and is not shown in the diagram. On these networks are three servers: Brocade Vyatta vRouter – this device provides a router, firewall and VPN termination point Web Server – provides hosting for the web application. Database Server – provides

Windows L2TP/IPSec Client Config

August 22, 2013

Here’s the procedure to configure a Windows client to connect to a L2TP/IPsec VPN server. You’ll need to know: VPN Server Address IPSec Pre-shared Secret Username Password To get started: 1. Open the “Start” menu, enter “setup a vpn” in the search box and hit Enter. The “Create a VPN connection” dialog will open. You can also get to this dialog by going to: Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> “Setup a new connection or network” -> “Connect to a workplace” -> Next -> “Use my Internet connection (VPN)” 2. Enter the VPN Server Address in the “Internet Address” field. Enter a name for the VPN connection like “My VPN” in the “Destination Name” field. Click the “Don’t connect now…” checkbox. Click the Next button. 3. Enter the username and password. Click the Create button. Click the Close button. 4. Open the network connections dialog by

Brocade Vyatta vRouter on RackSpace Cloud

August 20, 2013

RackSpace has recently released the Brocade Vyatta vRouter image to general availability on Cloud Servers. In combination with Cloud Networks the Brocade image can be used to build complex firewalled environments including VPNs. Reliable Penguin participated in the Early Access beta test for this new product. Here are a few links to useful information about the vRouter. RackSpace Vyatta Quick Start Firewall Remote Access VPN Masquerade Private Cloud Server (SNAT) Quick Start (Brocade) Firewall (Brocade) Not all control panel actions work with the vRouter. For example you have to reboot from the CLI. See this article for details: Vyatta Network Appliance: Supported Actions Through Control Panel

Upload to RS Cloud Files From Command Line

July 27, 2013

Great article here: http://thejaswi.info/tech/blog/2013/01/02/upload-a-directory-to-rackspace-cloud-files-from-command-line/ First step is to get the X-Auth-Token:


curl -v -X GET -H "X-Auth-User: <username>" -H "X-Auth-Key: <api_key>" \
   "https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"

curl -v -X GET -H "X-Auth-User: <username>" -H "X-Auth-Key: <api_key>" \

"https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"

Then send the upload request:


curl -X PUT -T <filename> -H "X-Auth-Token: <auth_token>" \
   "<storage_url>/<container_name>/<filename>";

curl -X PUT -T <filename> -H "X-Auth-Token: <auth_token>" \

"<storage_url>/<container_name>/<filename>";

RackSpace DNSaaS

July 20, 2011

Looks like RackSpace is doing DNS as a service with an API. Here are the links: Retail Site http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/dns/ API Developers Guide http://docs.rackspace.com/api/ Tutorial http://www.collazo.ws/2011/07/08/using-rackspace-dnsaas-with-curl-part-1 This should make it much easier to do bulk DNS operations in the cloud.

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