django-cumulus 1.0.20-6-gc285619-dirty

django-cumulus provides a set of tools to utilize the python-swiftclient and Rackspace Cloud Files API from Django. It includes a custom file storage class, CumulusFilesStorage.

More documentation about the usage and installation of django-cumulus can be found on django-cumulus.readthedocs.org.

The source code for django-cumulus can be found and contributed to on github.com/django-cumulus/django-cumulus. There you can also file issues.

This documentation applies to the version 1.0.20-6-gc285619-dirty of django-cumulus. To find out what’s new in this version, please see the changelog

Installation

To install the latest release from PyPI using pip:

pip install django-cumulus

To install the development version using pip:

pip install -e git://github.com/django-cumulus/django-cumulus.git#egg=django-cumulus

Add cumulus to INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'cumulus',
    ...
)

Usage

Add the following to your project’s settings.py file:

CUMULUS = {
    'USERNAME': 'YourUsername',
    'API_KEY': 'YourAPIKey',
    'CONTAINER': 'ContainerName',
    'PYRAX_IDENTITY_TYPE': 'rackspace',
}
DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'cumulus.storage.CumulusStorage'

The PYRAX_IDENTITY_TYPE parameter can either be rackspace or keystone depending on whether you use Rackspace or OpenStack respectively.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to set the DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE, you can do the following in your models:

from cumulus.storage import CumulusStorage

swiftclient_storage = CumulusStorage()

class Photo(models.Model):
    image = models.ImageField(storage=swiftclient_storage, upload_to='photos')
    alt_text = models.CharField(max_length=255)

Then access your files as you normally would through templates:

<img src="{{ photo.image.url }}" alt="{{ photo.alt_text }}" />

Or through Django’s default ImageField or FileField api:

>>> photo = Photo.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> photo.image.width
300
>>> photo.image.height
150
>>> photo.image.url
http://c0000000.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/photos/some-image.jpg

Static files

django-cumulus will work with Django’s built-in collectstatic management command out of the box. You need to supply a few additional settings:

CUMULUS = {
    'STATIC_CONTAINER': 'YourStaticContainer'
}
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'cumulus.storage.CumulusStaticStorage'

Context Processor

django-cumulus includes an optional context_processor for accessing the full CDN_URL of any container files from your templates.

This is useful when you’re using Cumulus to serve you static media such as css and javascript and don’t have access to the ImageField or FileField’s url() convenience method.

Add cumulus.context_processors.cdn_url to your list of context processors in your project’s settings.py file:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    ...
    'cumulus.context_processors.cdn_url',
    ...
)

Now in your templates you can use {{ CDN_URL }} to output the full path to local media:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ CDN_URL }}css/style.css">

Management commands

syncfiles

This management command synchronizes a local static or media folder with respective remote containers. A few extra settings are required to make use of the command.

Add the following required settings:

CUMULUS = {
    'CONTAINER': 'MyMediaContainer', # the name of the media container to sync with
    'STATIC_CONTAINER': 'MyStaticContainer',  # the name of the static container to sync with
    'SERVICENET': False,  # whether to use rackspace's internal private network
}

Invoke the management command:

django-admin.py syncfiles --static

django-admin.py syncfiles --media

You can also perform a test run:

django-admin.py syncfiles --test-run

For a full list of available options:

django-admin.py help syncfiles

container_create

This management command creates a new container.

Invoke the management command:

django-admin.py container_create <container_name>

For a full list of available options:

django-admin.py help container_create

container_delete

This management command deletes a container.

Invoke the management command:

django-admin.py container_delete <container_name>

For a full list of available options:

django-admin.py help container_delete

container_info

This management command gathers information about containers:

Invoke the management command:

django-admin.py container_info [<container_one> <container two> ...]

For a full list of available options:

django-admin.py help container_info

container_list

This management command lists all the items in a container to stdout.

Invoke the management command:

django-admin.py container_list <container_name>

For a full list of available options:

django-admin.py help container_list

Settings

Below are the default settings:

CUMULUS = {
    'API_KEY': None,
    'AUTH_URL': 'us_authurl',
    'AUTH_VERSION': '1.0',
    'AUTH_TENANT_NAME': None,
    'AUTH_TENANT_ID': None,
    'REGION': 'DFW',
    'CNAMES': None,
    'CONTAINER': None,
    'CONTAINER_URI': None,
    'CONTAINER_SSL_URI': None,
    'SERVICENET': False,
    'TIMEOUT': 5,
    'TTL': 86400,
    'USE_SSL': False,
    'USERNAME': None,
    'STATIC_CONTAINER': None,
    'INCLUDE_LIST': [],
    'EXCLUDE_LIST': [],
    'HEADERS': {},
    'GZIP_CONTENT_TYPES': [],
    'USE_PYRAX': True,
    'PYRAX_IDENTITY_TYPE': None,
}

API_KEY

Required. This is your API access key. You can obtain it from the Rackspace Management Console.

AUTH_URL

Set this to the region your account is in. Valid values are us_authurl (default) and uk_authurl, or if you are not using rackspace, your swift auth url.

AUTH_VERSION

OpenStack auth version to use with the swiftclient. Does not apply to pyrax based connections.

AUTH_TENANT_NAME and AUTH_TENANT_ID

Required if you are using your own Openstack Swift rather than rackspaces.

REGION

Set this to the regional datacenter to connect to. Valid values are DFW (default) ORD and LON.

CNAMES

A mapping of ugly Rackspace URLs to CNAMEd URLs. Example:

CUMULUS = {
    'CNAMES': {
        'http://c3417812.r12.cf0.rackcdn.com': 'http://media.mysite.com'
    }
}

CONTAINER

Required. The name of the container you want files to be uploaded to.

CONTAINER_URI and CONTAINER_SSL_URI

Specified URLs for the container will be used instead of looking up the URL directly from the container.

INCLUDE_LIST

A list of glob-style regular expresions to match files or directories to include when using the syncfiles management command. Defaults to an empty list.

EXCLUDE_LIST

A list of glob-style regular expresions to match files or directories to exclude when using the syncfiles management command. Defaults to an empty list.

SERVICENET

Specifies whether to use Rackspace’s private network (True) or not (False). If you host your sites on Rackspace, you should set this to True in production as you will not incur data transfer fees between your server(s) and the cdn on the private network.

STATIC_CONTAINER

When using Django’s collectstatic or django-cumulus’s syncfiles --static command, this is the name of the container you want static files to be uploaded to.

TIMEOUT

The timeout to use when attempting connections over swiftclient. Defaults to 5 (seconds).

TTL

The maximum time (in seconds) until a copy of one of your files distributed into the CDN is re-fetched from your container. Defaults to 86400 (seconds) (24h), the default set by pyrax.

Note: After changing TTL, caching servers may not recognize the new TTL for this container until the previous TTL expires.

USE_SSL

Whether or not to retrieve the container URL as http (False) or https (True).

USERNAME

Required. This is your API username. You can obtain it from the Rackspace Management Console.

HEADERS

Set headers based on a regular expression in the file name. This can be used to allow Firefox to access webfonts across domains:

CUMULUS = {
    'HEADERS': (
        (r'.*\.(eot|otf|woff|ttf)$', {
            'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
        }),
    )
}

GZIP_CONTENT_TYPES

Set which content types must be gzipped before sent to the cloud:

CUMULUS = {
    'GZIP_CONTENT_TYPES': ['image/jpeg', 'text/css'],
}

The files matching these content types would be gzipped and will have gzip content-encoding.

USE_PYRAX

If True, will use the Official Rackspace’s Python SDK for OpenStack/Rackspace APIs. Defaults to True.

Note: Currently this is required even to use your own OpenStack Swift setup.

PYRAX_IDENTITY_TYPE

Pyrax supports different identity types. For now (version 1.4.5 of Pyrax), there are two types available: rackspace and keystone.

You can specify it through cumulus settings and if you don’t, you must do it through other means (like environment variables or configuration files, see Pyrax documentation for more details).

Requirements

  • Django>=1.4
  • pyrax>=1.9,<1.10

Tests

To run the tests, clone the github repo, install tox and invoke tox from the clone’s root. This will upload two very small files to your container and delete them when the tests have finished running.

Issues

The source code for django-cumulus can be found and contributed to on github.com/django-cumulus/django-cumulus. There you can also file issues.

Changelog

To find out what’s new in this version of django-cumulus, please see the changelog