Create Cloud Server using novaclient library

create_cs_server.py

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
import novaclient
import sys
import time

# User Configuration
USERNAME=""
API_KEY=""
AUTH_URL="https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"

# Size of the servers, Flavour ID are :
# 1 -- 256 server
# 2 -- 512 server
# 3 -- 1GB server
# 4 -- 2GB server
# 5 -- 4GB server
# 6 -- 8GB server
# 7 -- 15.5GB server
FLAVOR_ID=3

# IMAGE_ID the Operating System or image IDs are :
#     55 -- Arch 2010.05
# 187811 -- CentOS 5.4
#     51 -- CentOS 5.5
#      4 -- Debian 5.0 (lenny --
#     53 -- Fedora 13 (Goddard --
#     71 -- Fedora 14
#     19 -- Gentoo 10.1
#     41 -- Oracle EL JeOS Release 5 Update 3
#     40 -- Oracle EL Server Release 5 Update 4
#     14 -- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
#     62 -- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
#     49 -- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid --
#     69 -- Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick --
#     10 -- Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (hardy --
#  14362 -- Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic --
#     23 -- Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x64
#     29 -- Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x86
#     28 -- Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
#     58 -- Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 - MSSQL2K8R2
#     24 -- Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64
#     57 -- Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 - MSSQL2K8R2
#     31 -- Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86
#     56 -- Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86 - MSSQL2K8R2
IMAGE_ID=23

# Set your server name here 
SERVER_NAME="new_windows_001"

# Get connection
cnx = novaclient.OpenStack(USERNAME, API_KEY, auth_url=AUTH_URL)

# Create Server
server = cnx.servers.create(
    image=IMAGE_ID,
    flavor=FLAVOR_ID,
    name=SERVER_NAME
    )
server_id = server.id

# server password is only given at creation.
server_password = server.adminPass

# Request has been sent, now we are waiting until this is created
while cnx.servers.get(server_id).status != "ACTIVE":
    status = cnx.servers.get(server_id).status
    if status == "ACTIVE":
        break
    elif status == "ERROR":
        print "We have an error while building which is unfortunate" + \
            ", you may have to restart the process again and contact" + \
            " cloud support providing this id: %s" % (server_id)
        sys.exit(1)
    time.sleep(0.5)

# The servers is created we can get info about it now
server_created = cnx.servers.get(server_id)

print "Name: %s" % (server_created.name)
print "Admin Password: %s" % (server_password)
print "PublicIP: %s" % (server_created.public_ip)
print "PrivateIP: %s" % (server_created.private_ip)