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Quick tutorial for booting a new Rackspace server with OpenStack's Nova client (CLI).
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  1. Install easy_install python package manager [Ref]:

     sh setuptools-0.6c9-py2.4.egg --prefix=~

  2. Install Rackspace CLI based on OpenStack Nova:

     easy_install rackspace-novaclient

  3. Export envvars (or in .bash_profile if you'd like) [Ref]:

     export OS_AUTH_URL=https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/
 export OS_AUTH_SYSTEM=rackspace
 export OS_REGION_NAME=ORD
 export OS_USERNAME=<username>
 export OS_TENANT_NAME=chicago
 export NOVA_RAX_AUTH=1
 export OS_PASSWORD=<api_key>
 export OS_PROJECT_ID=chicago
 export OS_NO_CACHE=1

  4. Confirm authentication, and find the flavor and image of your choosing:

     nova credentials
 nova image-list
 nova flavor-list

  5. So to create the smallest Ubuntu Lucid server:

     nova boot mytestserver --image=d531a2dd-7ae9-4407-bb5a-e5ea03303d98 --flavor=2

  6. Server will start booting, you'll be shown output info, and in a few minutes, you'll have a new server in Rackspace's Control Panel.

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