Softlayer cloud module scheduled deprecation and deletion

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Softlayer cloud module scheduled deprecation and deletion #56546

Open alan-cugler opened 4 years ago

alan-cugler commented 4 years ago

Description of Issue

Softlayer merged with IBM to further bulster IBM-Cloud, so as far as I can tell the softlayer cloud module won't work anymore. Should either be tested to still be valid, needing refactoring, or decommissioned from service.

Relevant Docs page:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/master/topics/cloud/softlayer.html

Comments

I mentioned this to the cloud channel on community slack and got a single response back saying deprecation is probably necessary. Though, no further conversation followed.

vitaliyf commented 4 years ago

IBM consolidated SoftLayer into "IBM Cloud" so the part that this module talks to is now called "Classic Infrastructure". I don't think they have any plans to deprecate it and they are actively maintaining https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-python module that Salt relies on, including supporting Python 3.5+

markododa commented 4 years ago

Seems like there are some poorly documented caveats with the softlayer api. It is documented here, https://sldn.softlayer.com/article/authenticating-softlayer-api/, when using ibm cloud username is always apikey. Also the python script at the end may or may not be necessary.