As part of my ongoing conversion from dynamic to static sites using Jekyll, a requirement recently came up to put all static files on the Rackspace CloudFiles service via their CDN integration. The logical solution to this was to write a plugin.

I looked at several ways of doing this, but the best way appeared to be adding a tag to the Liquid templating system. The plugin is up on GitHub and should be pretty simple to use. I’m currently using it on one site I’m developing but expect to be using it on a few more over the next few months.

I’ve recently been transferring a lot of my sites and server-based services over to RackspaceCloud, and part of this meant uploading a fairly large number of files to the CloudFiles service. The web interface sucks for more than a few files so I knocked up this quick script to make it easier. It has already saved me a ton of time so I thought it worth sharing.