IBM SoftLayer driver for Chef Provisioning

A standalone IBM SoftLayer driver for chef-provisioning that doesn't use fog.

Main functions

• It can provision, destroy and manipulate cloud instances on IBM SoftLayer
• Support customized system specificcation for virtual server, bare metal instance and bare metal server
• Lately revision from chef-provisioning v1.5

Requirement

• A pair of IBM SoftLayer API username and key is required to use this driver
• Basic knowledge of IBM SoftLayer API, like what is virtual server, bare metal instance(hourly/monthly) and server(monthly)

Quick Start

• Prerequisite
  Abtain API username and key and export to environment variables or recipe (refer to examples/cookbooks/test/recipes/virtual_server.rb recipe for details)

• How to run

  $ cd examples  
  $ chef-client -z -o test::virtual_server

Limitation

• Assume user is responsible for correctness of specified system configuration of a cloud instance in recipe
• Due to loading meta data of IBM SoftLayer API, driver initialization might take minutes for bare metal server
• Support up to Chef 12.4

Features/Functions to enhance

• Add 'why-run' support to help with debug or test
• Add Public/private key pair support

Support

Zhong Yu(Leo) Wu ([email protected])
Emerging Technologies Team, IBM Analytics Platform ([email protected])

License

Apache v2.0