Terraform: Add support for Softlayer

[bendodd]

Are there any plans to support Softlayer?

[athak]

+1 for this

[devzsolt]

+1

[rarruda]

+1

[matheusrossato]

+1

[cloudify]

+1

[apparentlymart]

• SoftLayer API docs
• Go client for the API (not sure how comprehensive it is)

It looks like SoftLayer has quite a few resources. For those who have added +1 to this issue: is there a small set of resources from SoftLayer that would be a good start for basic SoftLayer support? I don't know SoftLayer at all, but usually new providers start with one or two key resource types and then grow over time depending on contributor interest.

[ghost]

As a start I recommend doing Softlayer Managers

http://softlayer-api-python-client.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/client/#managers

[jaisingh]

+1

[sudorandom]

Here's my efforts to generate a client for the SoftLayer API for go: https://github.com/sudorandom/softlayer-go

It's nowhere close to where I would consider finished but it does have the ability to generate go types for all SoftLayer types. It seems to be usable for simple cases at the very least.

[axltxl]

+1

[ckelner]

Wanted to provide some info here. There is https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/2554 which then turned into: https://github.com/finn-no/terraform-provider-softlayer -- now TheWeatherCompany (parent company for The Weather Channel [weather.com], Weather Underground [wunderground.com], and WSI [http://www.wsi.com/]) is starting to work this effort very very soon, progress can be followed here: https://github.com/TheWeatherCompany/terraform/tree/feature/softlayer

[jessesanford]

I would also love to see this.

[ckelner]

We're working on it over at https://github.com/theweathercompany/terraform/tree/feature/softlayer and making progress. @danielcbright will be making a PR very soon!

[wakwanza]

+1

[danielcbright]

PR created: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/4327 - right now it's waiting on https://github.com/maximilien/softlayer-go/pull/84 changes to be made as it's currently a dependency. I'll update as progress is made.

[JulienChampseix]

any update ?

[danielcbright]

All checks are now passing for the initial PR https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/4327

[JulienChampseix]

@daniel-bryant-uk have you some news about the validation of this PR ?

[danielbryantuk]

Hey @JulienChampseix, I think you've tagged the wrong Daniel - You want @danielcbright :-)

[danielcbright]

Thanks @daniel-bryant-uk :)

@JulienChampseix at this point I think the more people who can test and comment on the existing PR the better, the open PR is here https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/4327. Please let me know of any bugs/issues you find. The other thing of note is that this is going to be a community supported provider for Hashicorp, based on @mitchellh 's blog post earlier this year: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-improve.html. Because of this, it is crucial to have community involvement not only for the initial PR, but for all subsequent development work.

I think once the base provider is pulled in, which currently adds support for virtual_guest and dns within SoftLayer, it's going to pave the way for future additions we've already made.

[chulkilee]

softlayer provider is added to 0.6.16. Let's close it; open new issues for more features

[jen20]

:+1: - Softlayer is in 0.6.16.

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