Christoph Champ's blog

asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions

Christoph — Sun, 17 May 2015 20:31:24 +0000

asciinema is a free and open source solution for recording the terminal sessions and sharing them on the web:

#Linux from the #CLI/#tty for geeks like me!

Embed videos into your WordPress posts

Christoph — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 00:11:06 +0000

See here for a complete list of sites you can “embed” into your blog posts (i.e., those sites that have been whitelisted).

Rackspace Cloud Networks API

Christoph — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 23:06:12 +0000

This article will show various examples and techniques for working with Rackspace’s Cloud Networks (NaaS) RESTful API…[read more]

Rackspace Cloud Images API

Christoph — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:03:40 +0000

In this article, I will show you how to share a Cloud Image from one Rackspace account to another. The account doing the sharing will be called the “Producer” and the account receiving the share will be called the “Consumer”. Note that the image being shared by the Producer can only be used by the Consumer to build Cloud Servers in the same region/data centre as the Producer’s image was created in (e.g., DFW, ORD, SYD, etc.)…[read more]

Rackspace Cloud Block Storage API

Christoph — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:54:21 +0000

This article will show various examples and techniques for working with Rackspace’s Cloud Cloud Block Storage (CBS) RESTful API…[read more]

Rackspace Cloud Monitoring API

Christoph — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:01:08 +0000

This article will show various examples and techniques for working with Rackspace’s Cloud Monitoring (MaaS) RESTful API…[read more]

Carl Sagan Quoted

Christoph — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:02:37 +0000

“Wanderers” — a short film by Erik Wernquist:

Rackspace Cloud Databases API

Christoph — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:58:28 +0000

This article will show various examples and techniques for working with Rackspace’s Cloud Databases (DBaaS) RESTful API…[read more]

pyrax SDK

Christoph — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:27:59 +0000

pyrax is the official Python SDK for OpenStack/Rackspace APIs…[read more]

Using cURL to upload to Rackspace Cloud Files

Christoph — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:53:26 +0000

In this post, I will show you how to quickly upload files to Rackspace Cloud Files using only the Linux CLI (i.e., no SDKs, Rackspace-specific tools, or anything that is not already installed on a standard Linux distro).

This post will assume you already have some basic understanding of how application programming interfaces (APIs) work, you have a Rackspace Cloud account (w/Cloud Files), and understand the basics of the Linux CLI (e.g., you know how to use cURL). See my Rackspace API article on my wiki for more in-depth explanations and examples.

Note: The following commands use Python. It should work with any version of Python, however, it was tested with Python 2.7.4.

First get your 24-hour-valid token:
View the code on Gist.

Then, use a for-loop to upload your files (e.g., all of the PNG files in you present working direcory) to a given container (e.g., “sandbox”):
View the code on Gist.

Note: Obviously, you will need to replace MossoCloudFS_ffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffff with your actual unique container URL.