Working with Image Templates

A collection of CLI Examples on how to interact with Image Templates.

Read up on the Golang Example Framework for information on how to setup the CLI Framework to get this code to run easily.

Creating an flex image from a Virtual Server

This script makes a paginated API call to SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::captureImage().

/*
Create an flex image from a Virtual Server

The script makes a single call to the  SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::captureImage method to create a
flex image. Please see below for more information.

Important manual pages:
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/datatypes/SoftLayer_Container_Disk_Image_Capture_Template
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/captureImage
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest

License: http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
Author: SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. <sldn@softlayer.com>
*/
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/datatypes"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/sl"
	"encoding/json"
)

func main() {
	// SoftLayer API username and key.
	username  := "set me"
	apikey    := "set me"

	// The virtual guest id you wish to create a flex image disk.
	virtualGuestId := 29857155

	// Build the template object that will be used to capture a flex image.
	captureTemplate := datatypes.Container_Disk_Image_Capture_Template {
		Description : sl.String("Description example"),
		Name        : sl.String("Image Name"),
		Summary     : sl.String("Summary example"),
	}

	// Create session
	sess := session.New(username, apikey)

	// Get SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest service.
	service := services.GetVirtualGuestService(sess)

	// Capture flex image.
	flexImage, err := service.Id(virtualGuestId).CaptureImage(&captureTemplate)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("\n Unable to create Flex Image:\n - %s\n", err)
		return
	} 

	// Following creates a JSON object which is based on data of the captured image.
	jsonFormat, JsonErr := json.MarshalIndent(flexImage,"","     ")
	if JsonErr != nil {
		fmt.Println(JsonErr)
		return
	}

	// Print result in JSON format
	fmt.Println(string(jsonFormat))
}

Deleting an image template

This script makes a paginated API call to SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::deleteObject().

/*
Delete an image template

The script makes a single call to the SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::deleteObject
method to delete an image template. For more information see below.

Important manual pages
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group/deleteObject
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group

License: http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
Author: SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. <sldn@softlayer.com>
*/
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
)

func main() {
	// SoftLayer API username and key.
	username  := "set me"
	apikey    := "set me"

  	// The image id you wish to delete.
	imageId := 879951

	// Create session
  	sess := session.New(username, apikey)

	// Get SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group service.
  	service := services.GetVirtualGuestBlockDeviceTemplateGroupService(sess)

	// Delete the image
  	result, err := service.Id(imageId).DeleteObject()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("\n Unable to delete image:\n - %s\n", err)
		return
	} 

	// Print result
  	fmt.Println(result)
}

Getting items from an image template

This script returns an array of SoftLayer_Product_Item objects which are part of a SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group object).

/*
Get items from an image template

This script returns an array of SoftLayer_Product_Item objects which are part of a
SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group object

Important manual pages:
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Product_Package/getItemsFromImageTemplate
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/datatypes/SoftLayer_Product_Item
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group/

License: http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
Author: SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. <sldn@softlayer.com>
*/
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
	"encoding/json"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/datatypes"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/sl"
)

func main() {
	// SoftLayer API username and key
	username := "set me"
	apikey   := "set me"

	// The id of package you wish to get information
	packageId := 46             // Virtual Server Instance

	// Declare the image template id
	imageTemplateId := 1370911

	// Build a SoftLayer_VIrtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group object
	imageTemplate := datatypes.Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group{
		Id: sl.Int(imageTemplateId),
	}

	// Create SoftLayer API session
	sess := session.New(username, apikey)

	// Get SoftLayer_Product_Package service
	service := services.GetProductPackageService(sess)

	// Call the getItemsFromImageTemplate() method.
	items, err := service.Id(packageId).GetItemsFromImageTemplate(&imageTemplate)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("\n Unable to get items from image template:\n - %s\n", err)
		return
	}

	// Following helps to print the result in json format.
	for _,item := range items {
		jsonFormat, jsonErr := json.Marshal(item)
		if jsonErr != nil {
			fmt.Println(jsonErr)
			return
		}
		fmt.Println(string(jsonFormat))
	}
}

Listing Image templates

This script makes a paginated API call to SoftLayer_Account::getPrivateBlockDeviceTemplateGroups().

/*
Get private image templates

The script calls the SoftLayer_Account::getPrivateBlockDeviceTemplateGroups method to list the
private templates in the account and uses an object mask to display more related information of
the images templates.

Important manual pages:
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Account
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Account/getPrivateBlockDeviceTemplateGroups
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/dataypes/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group

License: http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
Author: SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. <sldn@softlayer.com>
*/
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
	"encoding/json"
)

func main() {
	// SoftLayer API username and key.
	username  := "set me"
	apikey    := "set me"

	// Create session
	sess := session.New(username, apikey)

	// Get SoftLayer_Account service.
	service := services.GetAccountService(sess)

	// Declare mask that will be used to get specific data
	mask:="id,name,parentId,userRecordId,summary,note,status[name]," +
		"storageRepository[datacenter];imageTypeKeyName"

	// Retrieve image templates from account.
	images, err := service.Mask(mask).GetPrivateBlockDeviceTemplateGroups()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("\n Unable to retrieve image templates:\n - %s\n", err)
		return
	}

	// Following creates a JSON object which is based on data of the captured image.
	for _, image := range images {
		jsonFormat, JsonErr := json.Marshal(image)
		if JsonErr != nil {
			fmt.Println(JsonErr)
			return
		}
		fmt.Println(string(jsonFormat))
	}

}

This script makes a paginated API call to SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::permitSharingAccess().

/*
Share image template.

The script shares an image template to another account, it makes a single call to
SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::permitSharingAccess method.
For more information please see below.

Important manual pages
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group/permitSharingAccess
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group

License: http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
Author: SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. <sldn@softlayer.com>
*/
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
)

func main() {
	// SoftLayer API username and key.
	username  := "set me"
	apikey    := "set me"

  	// The image id you wish to share
	imageId := 879951

	// The account you wish to share the image template
	accountToShare := 207819

	// Create session
  	sess := session.New(username, apikey)

	// Get SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group service.
  	service := services.GetVirtualGuestBlockDeviceTemplateGroupService(sess)
	// Share the image to specified account.
  	result, err := service.Id(imageId).PermitSharingAccess(&accountToShare)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("\n Unable to share the image:\n - %s\n", err)
		return
	} 

	// Print result
  	fmt.Println(result)
}

Unsharing image template

This script makes a paginated API call to SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::denySharingAccess().

/*
Un-share an image template

The script un-shares an image template it makes a call to  SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group::denySharingAccess
method for more information please see below:

Important manual pages
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group/denySharingAccess
http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group

License: http://sldn.softlayer.com/article/License
Author: SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. <sldn@softlayer.com>
*/
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/services"
	"github.com/softlayer/softlayer-go/session"
)

func main() {
	// SoftLayer API username and key.
	username  := "set me"
	apikey    := "set me"

  	// The image id you wish to remove sharing access
	imageId := 879951

	// The account you wish to remove sharing access
	accountToShare := 207819

	// Create session
  	sess := session.New(username, apikey)

	// Get SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest_Block_Device_Template_Group service.
  	service := services.GetVirtualGuestBlockDeviceTemplateGroupService(sess)

	// Un-share the image.
  	result, err := service.Id(imageId).DenySharingAccess(&accountToShare)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("\n Unable to remove sharing access:\n - %s\n", err)
		return
	} 

	// Print result
  	fmt.Println(result)
}