Rackspace Cloud SDK for .NET Released

Grazed from VisualStudioMagazin. Author: Katrina Carrasco.

Rackspace US Inc. recently released its Rackspace Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET, a suite of tools that enables .NET developers to work with the OpenStack cloud OS. OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform created by Rackspace and NASA. The Rackspace Cloud SDK for .NET "lets the .NET community develop and consume cloud features or services," according to a blog post by Rackspace Product Marketing Manager Cole Humphreys.

The product can be used to manage "production environments using Windows Server platforms running on a Rackspace hosted infrastructure," Humphreys notes. The Rackspace Cloud SDK for .NET includes a language API and API reference manual, a Getting Started Guide, release notes and sample code, according to Humphreys’ blog post. The Rackspace Cloud SDK is free and can be downloaded from GitHub or from within Visual Studio using the NuGet extension manager…

A complementary product, Rackspace PowerClient, is a Windows PowerShell-based API client that "helps simplify the workload for API calls," Humphreys explained in an interview. PowerClient works with the "Rackspace public cloud," his blog post notes, "and with our next-generation Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack."…

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