Rancher 1.6 Docs

Adding Rackspace Hosts

Rancher supports provisioning Rackspace hosts using docker machine.

Finding Rackspace Credentials

In order to launch a Rackspace host, you’ll need your API Key provided by Rackspace. Log in to your Rackspace account.

1. Navigate to the Account Settings.

2. In the Login Details section, there is an API Key. Click on Show to reveal the API Key. Copy the key to use in Rancher.

Launching Rackspace Host(s)

Now that we’ve found our API Key, we are ready to launch our Rackspace host(s). Under the Infrastructure -> Hosts tab, click Add Host. Select the Rackspace icon.

1. Select the number of hosts you want to launch using the slider.
2. Provide a Name and if desired, Description for the host.
3. Provide the Username that you log in to your Rackspace account with.
4. Provide the API Key that we found associated with your username.
5. Pick the Region that you want to launch your host in.
6. Pick the Flavor of the host.
7. (Optional) Add labels to hosts to help organize your hosts and to schedule services/load balancers or to program external DNS records using an IP other than the host IP.
8. (Optional) Customize your docker-machine create command with Docker engine options.
9. When complete, click Create.

Once you click on create, Rancher will create the Rackspace server and launch the rancher-agent container in the server. In a couple of minutes, the host will be active and available for services.