Python on SoftLayer API

The SoftLayer Python Library

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Basics

softlayer-python project homepage. For source code and submitting issues.
Documentation Covers both the SLCLI and softlayer-python library.
PyPi project For latest information about the softlayer-python package, which is kept updated on PyPi.

Python 2.7 Support

As of version 5.8.0 SoftLayer-Python will no longer support python2.7, which is End Of Life as of 2020 . If you cannot install python 3.6+ for some reason, you will need to use a version of softlayer-python <= 5.7.2

Single Account Billing Detail

Wed, 08 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Account Level Billing

This tutorial walks you through accessing detailed billing data for a single specified account using a specified time and date range.

Objectives

Understand how to use multiple API services and methods to access detailed billing data for a specified account using a specified time and date range.

Services used

This tutorial uses the following technologies:

Architecture

This tutorial will leverage account Invoice and Billing Item API’s to collect and display detailed billing detail for a specified time and date range.

Automating Block Storage

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Process

Order a VSI with a postInstall script
Order a storage volume
Update the metadata of the VSI to include the needed information to mount the storage volume
postInstall script gets metadata from the metadata service, and mounts the volume

Ordering Code

This script will order a VSI, based on a configuration in the file, then order some storage, authorize storage to the new VSI, and set the VSI’s metadata with the needed information for it to be mounted.

Sub-Organization Billing Detail

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Sub-org Billing Detail

This tutorial walks you through accessing the steps required to access detailed billing data across sub-organization accounts using a specified date and time range.

Objectives

Understand how to use multiple API services and methods to access detailed billing data for all sub organization accounts for a specified time and date range.

Services used

This tutorial uses the following technologies:

Architecture

Accounts (refered to in this document as a sub account) can be owned by a Brand Account, which is the top level account type for an organization which can enable sub-organizational level billing. The API Key for a Brand Account has access billing data for it’s sub accounts. This tutorial demonstrates how to leverage Account, Invoice and Billing API’s to identify invoices accross the multiple sub accounts owned by an organization for a specific range of dates. For each invoice, a list of top level billing items are retreived, such as the billing data for a single virtual machine. These top level items, often have detailed sub-billing items such as memory, disk, or cpu which are also retreived.