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title: Rackspace Cloud Actions
description: "## Actions for Rackspace Cloud - ***Send Data to Rackspace Cloud***. Sends a custom set of Lucidum data to Rackspace Cloud. ## Use Cases Below are the possible use cases for these actions: - If you want to run Lucidum…"
url: "https://lucidum.io/docs/rackspace-cloud-actions/"
updated: "2025-09-24"
category: Actions / List of Actions / R
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# Rackspace Cloud Actions

## Actions for Rackspace Cloud

- ***Send Data to Rackspace Cloud***. Sends a custom set of Lucidum data to Rackspace Cloud.

## Use Cases

Below are the possible use cases for these actions:

- If you want to run Lucidum “headless”, you can send relevant data to Rackspace Cloud on a regular schedule.
- You can send normalized, enriched Lucidum data to Rackspace Cloud to be indexed, searched, and analyzed.

## Prerequisites

To execute Rackspace Cloud actions, you must:

- Configure a user account in Rackspace Cloud that has API permissions.

  **NOTE**: The specified account should have **read and write**permissions.

## Workflows

- [Creating a new Configuration and a new Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_for_creating_configurations_and_actions_in_lucidum)
- [Cloning an Existing Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_using_clone_to_create_a_new_action)
- [Creating a new Action from the Location Results page](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#alternative_workflow_for_creating_an_action)
- [Editing a Configuration](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_for_editing_a_configuration)
- [Editing an Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_for_editing_an_action)
- [Viewing Information about an Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#viewing_information_about_an_existing_action_and_executing_an_action_on_demand)

## Rackspace Cloud Configuration

To create a configuration for Rackspace Cloud actions:

![rackspace_cloud_configuration.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/rackspace_cloud_configuration.png)

- ***Configuration Name***. Identifier for the Configuration. This name will appear in the Lucidum Action Center.
- ***URL***. The URL of the Rackspace API. For example, https://ord.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com
- ***Username***. The username of an account that has read and write access to the Rackspace APIs. For details, see[https://docs-ospc.rackspace.com/cloud-servers/v2/getting-started/get-credentials-include.html](https://docs-ospc.rackspace.com/cloud-servers/v2/getting-started/get-credentials-include.html). For details on user roles and permissions, see [https://docs-ospc.rackspace.com/cloud-servers/v2/general-api-info/role-based-access-control.html#assigning-roles-to-account-users](https://docs-ospc.rackspace.com/cloud-servers/v2/general-api-info/role-based-access-control.html#assigning-roles-to-account-users).
- ***API Key***. For details on generating an API Key, see [https://docs.rackspace.com/docs/view-and-reset-your-api-key](https://docs.rackspace.com/docs/view-and-reset-your-api-key).
- ***Max # of Records per Payload***. The maximum number of records to send to Rackspace Cloud in each action. The default value is “50”.

## Create a New Action

To create an action for Rackspace Cloud, contact Lucidum customer care.