# Ansible and IBM SoftLayer

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-ibm-softlayer/17306>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 18, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-ibm-softlayer/17306 "2015-01-18T16:47:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Nate\_Dobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7cd45c/32.png) [@Nate\_Dobbs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nate_Dobbs)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-ibm-softlayer/17306/1 "2015-01-18T16:47:38Z")

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I see as of the latest release of ansbile there exists an inventory module for IBM’s SoftLayer. However I do not see any support or mention of a module that can be used with ansible. For now we have some playbooks wrapped around their SoftLayer cli ( sl ). I was wondering if its in the roadmap to support SoftLayer with a module similar to EC2?

A PythonAPI for SoftLayer exists: [https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-python](https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-python)

I will try to take on this undertaking but wanted to see if this was something in the works, as we’d use a module like this with Tower.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Mooshammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Peter\_Mooshammer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Peter_Mooshammer)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-ibm-softlayer/17306/2 "2015-01-18T18:09:05Z")

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I would be interested as well.

thanks

Peter

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**Author:** ![kesten\_broughton1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@kesten\_broughton1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kesten_broughton1)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-ibm-softlayer/17306/3 "2015-06-18T15:55:21Z")

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Is there anything available for testing?

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**Author:** ![Nate\_Dobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7cd45c/32.png) [@Nate\_Dobbs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nate_Dobbs)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-and-ibm-softlayer/17306/4 "2015-06-23T12:43:15Z")

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There is not anything that I’m aware of.

I ended up writing command modules around the ‘sl’ CLI interface.