Rhea: ColdFusion API for Rackspace Cloud Servers and Files

March 9, 2010 · 4 Comment s

As Matt has mentioned over on the company blog, we're just released Rhea; our ColdFusion API for working with the Rackspace Cloud Servers and Files

We've been working with Rackspace for a while now through clients, subsequently becoming Partners, and the moving our own environments there. We did this alongside the launch of ColdFusion 9, which is the first release to offer Cloud licensing.

As we started to experiment more with what the Rackspace Cloud offerings gave us, we realised the need to find a better way to automate our deployments. We're already using Ant to push code out the door (from Subversion), but we wanted to take advantage of the serparation of static and dynamic content; .cfm,.cfc files going to the Cloud Server and .jpg,.css.js, etc going to Cloud Files.

And Rhea was born.

We'll continue to work on Rhea, improving it, fixing issues, and ultimately looking to see how it can help others solve problems.

We've released it under the Apache License, Version 2 and the code is there for you to do what you want with.

We'll keep control of the main code branch internally but we're open to patches and other suggestions.

Over time we'll open access to our internal Repository and Bug Tracker, but we justed wanted to get it out the door.

So go download!

Tags: ColdFusion · Rhea

4 response s so far ↓

1 Jose // Mar 10, 2010 at 3:01 PM

Sounds intriguing! Is Rackspace offering CF cloud support on Windows, yet?
2 Andy Allan // Mar 15, 2010 at 7:31 PM

Rackspace don't offer CF hosting. Period. Doesn't stop you from installing it, which is exactly what we do on their Linux servers.
3 Chris Kellett // Nov 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM

trying out the CF API for rackspace, with some limited success.

I'm trying to just put and get files from the cloud.

Seems I can only GET files that are in CDN enabled containers.. does that sound right? or am I doing something wrong.

If I try to retrieve a file from a non CDN container all I get is a OK status message - but no content.

Am I missing something? Any resources or examples I can look at.
4 Andy Allan // Nov 24, 2010 at 11:44 PM

The Cloud Files API may have changed ... lemme look into this for you (we're probably due to release an update to Rhea anyway)