# Liveness check: community.general Dimension Data cloud **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** community-general, deprecation\ **Created:** [August 15, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302 "2025-08-15T06:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![russoz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russoz/32/127_2.png) [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 6:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302/1 "2025-08-15T06:19:54Z")
Hi everyone, Yet another check, this time for the modules: - community.general.dimensiondata\_vlan - community.general.dimensiondata\_network And accompanying doc fragments and module utils. DimensionData seems to have been a cloud provider from South Africa that was later acquired by NTT Docomo (some 6-7 years ago?). The module relies on Apache’ s libcloud package, and that library has a built-in catalog of cloud providers and their endpoints. Libcloud has release many new versions since the company’s acquisition, but their [entry in the catalog is still there](https://libcloud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/compute/drivers/dimensiondata.html), and many entrypoints still point to their DNS domain, but running `curl` against those endpoints times out. Googling a bit, it seems that the company name DimensionData has not been used for a number of years, the main site of the company redirects to a generic page in NTT’s site. I even engaged ChatGPT into searching for evidence of any activity and it came back with a [monitoring dashboard, still up and running, but showing 0% uptime](https://au.emaas.dimensiondata.com/49177/385847) (for the last week or so) on everything it monitors 🤦 . So, there are many circumstantial indications that the service is gone but I could not find (within the limited time I spent searching) a final word on whether it still operates or not. I come to the community and ask if anyone has any more evidence or references that could be used to confirm the state of the service in either way. Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![russoz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russoz/32/127_2.png) [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302/2 "2025-09-28T06:36:27Z")
Hi there, it’s been more than a month, no word. I will mention this in the Bullhorn a couple of times, and if no one says anything, I’ll submit a deprecation for the modules and other plugins. ---
**Author:** ![russoz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russoz/32/127_2.png) [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302/3 "2025-10-07T10:53:37Z")
Hi there, second call on this - also sent the notification to Bullhorn. Next and final call next week. ---
**Author:** ![russoz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russoz/32/127_2.png) [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302/4 "2025-10-13T21:40:17Z")
Hi everyone, this is the third and final call on this topic, also sent to the Bullhorn (to be published next week). If nothing new is heard on the matter, then a deprecation PR will be submitted on 28/Oct (in UTC+13, so probably 27/Oct for the majority) ---
**Author:** ![russoz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russoz/32/127_2.png) [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/liveness-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302/5 "2025-10-27T22:12:57Z")
Hi everyone, I have just merged > > > \##### SUMMARY > > As advertised in the forum: > https://forum.ansible.com/t/livene…ss-check-community-general-dimension-data-cloud/44302 > > It seems that DimensionData is gone. > > This PR is meant to be merged on 28/Oct (morning, in New Zealand time, so 27/Oct for most of the world). > > > > > > \##### ISSUE TYPE > > \- Feature Pull Request > > \##### COMPONENT NAME > > meta/runtime.yml > plugins/doc\_fragments/dimensiondata.py > plugins/doc\_fragments/dimensiondata\_wait.py > plugins/module\_utils/dimensiondata.py > plugins/modules/dimensiondata\_network.py > plugins/modules/dimensiondata\_vlan.py Deprecation is set to version 13.0.0, so if anything changes until June next year, feel free to give us a heads up.