Slick is a reference implementation for using the SoftLayer Python Bindings. It implements a small web portal using a variety of open source projects to show the type of application you can build with the bindings.

.. WARNING:: This software is currently in active development. Some expertise is required for initial installation and setup.

Starting with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04-64

apt-get install libpq-dev sqlite3 python-pip git python-dev
pip install WTForms  wtforms-html5 WTForms-Components
pip install flask
pip install six --upgrade

cd /usr/local/
git clone https://github.com/softlayer/slick.git
cd slick
python setup.py install

If setup.py failed to install, make sure you install any missing packages and try again before continuing. Usually the setup will complain about a missing package, so just use pip to install or upgrade it, and you should be ok.

alembic upgrade head   

Then you need to setup the config file. Just copy it to config.py, and edit the 2 secret strings.

If you don't want to have everything in /usr/local/slick make sure to change alembic.ini and config.py

cp config.py.sample config.py
export SLICK_CONFIG_FILE=/usr/local/slick/config.py

You will need to either add SLICK_CONFIG_FILE to your bashrc, or export it every time you reboot.

This will start the web server on port 5000

python run.py

Then just head over to http://hostname:5000 and you should be able to login with your SoftLayer portal username and password. To run the server as a daemon just add the & symbol to the end of that command. There is currently no init script or anything fancy like that.

I'll leave setting up nginx as an exersize for the reader.

• This library has been tested on Python 2.7 only. It may work on other versions.
• A valid SoftLayer API username and key are required to call SoftLayer's API

This software is Copyright (c) 2013 SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. See the bundled LICENSE file for more information.