Getting started

Use the following information to learn how to authenticate, send API requests, and complete basic operations by using the Rackspace Cloud Block Storage API.

• Get your credentials
• Sending API requests to Cloud Block Storage
• Authenticate to the Rackspace Cloud
• Cloud Block Storage concepts
• Create and manage volumes and snapshots

To start using the API and run the examples in this section, you need the following items:

• Rackspace Cloud account. If you don’t have one, sign up for a Rackspace Cloud account.

• Command-line tool or browser client for communicating with the API service.