Unable to supply provisioning script to softlayer create()

[gczuczy]

Hello,

I found it not possible to supply the post_uri parameter of [1] from the CloudClient.create() when creating softlayer VMs. This is important when a couple of settings need to be made in order to allow the freshly spawned minion to be contactable by the salt master.

An example scenario:
The fresh minion does not have a public IP. The master is on a different site (different internal subnet), and the two private subnets are connect by a VPN. In this case after SL provisions the new VM, a provisioning script is needed to set the proper routing parameters.

By being able to pass the post_uri from the cloudclient's create() to softlayer's API, it makes it possible to do the required adjustments on the freshly spawned VM, therefore saltstack will be able to reach the new VM and bootstrap the salt-minion.

[1] https://softlayer-api-python-client.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/managers/vs/#SoftLayer.managers.vs.VSManager.create_instance

[rallytime]

Thanks for filing this @gczuczy. We'll take a look.

[allmightyspiff]

One of the "gotchas" with the SoftLayer post_uri thing is it has to be a HTTPS url. If you supply a HTTP url, your script will be downloaded to /root, but not run. Can you confirm that you are using a HTTPS url for your post_uri?

Thanks.

[techhat]

@allmightyspiff, salt-cloud SoftLayer drivers use the SoftLayer API, which seems to be hardcoded to the following URLs:

https://api.softlayer.com/xmlrpc/v3/
https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/

We just need to allow @gczuczy to pass through the correct parameter. @gczuczy, are you using the softlayer or softlayer_hw driver?

[allmightyspiff]

what I mean is, the url you pass to post_uri needs to be https.
post_uri = 'http://somewhere.com/post.sh" will download the script to /root
post_uri = "https://somewhere.com/post.sh" will download the script to /root and run it.

This appears to only be actually documented on the actual order page that I can find.

I haven't really messed with softlayer-cloud too much, so if it just doesn't allow passing of post_uri then no worries. I just wanted to make sure you all were not doing a bunch of work because of a http vs https issue :)

[techhat]

Thanks for the clarification @allmightyspiff, it is much appreciated.

[rallytime]

@gczuczy I've implemented this feature in PR #27251. Can you give that a try and make sure it does what you're intending? Thanks! :)