Rackspace Cinder Extensions

Extensions to OpenStack Cinder, created by Rackers to enhance operations and the customer experience.

Installation

The included setup.py can be used to build .deb files for Debian or Ubuntu. First you'll need to install some prerequisite packages:

apt-get install python-stdeb fakeroot python-all

To build for a specific release create a stdeb.cfg file and add the following, replacing trusty with your release codename:

[DEFAULT]
Suite: trusty

Now build the .deb file:

python setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb

Load all extensions in the Rackspace extension package

Add this line to cinder.conf:

osapi_volume_extension = rackspace_cinder_extensions.api.contrib.standard_extensions

Load extensions by name:

Add these lines to cinder.conf:

osapi_volume_extension = rackspace_cinder_extensions.api.contrib.select_extensions
rsapi_volume_ext_list = Volume_list_admin_context,Snapshot_progress