Ansible, Rackspace Cloud Servers, and Virtualenv Ansible is a powerful tool for managing and configuring servers. It can also be used to create new cloud servers and then configure them automatically for us. For a system administrator, engineer, and developer, ansible can save us a lot of time and hassle by automating a lot of our routine tasks.
Here’s a tutorial guide for using ansible to build and configure new Rackspace Cloud servers.
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Jekyll with Human Friendly URLs I’ve been using Jekyll to generate static web sites and then hosting them on the Rackspace Cloud Files CDN which uses Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN).
With Rackspace Cloud Files I have a CDN-enabled container and I have enabled my container to serve static web site files. This means I can use Rackspace Cloud Files with Akamai CDN to serve all my static web sites and I do not need to run or manage my own servers for web hosting.
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Auto-Scaling Celery Workers with Rackspace Cloud Servers
I have been working on an automated stock trading system for some time. Part of my automated trading system involves a lot of number crunching and calculations, such as for technical analysis and neural networks. Processing large amounts of data for thousands of stock tickers can be very time consuming and take a significantly long time to fully process the data. I have begun creating additional worker nodes so that I have more processing power available in order to complete the data processing and number crunching much faster.
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