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• Basic and Advanced Ordering
  A breakdown of Classic Infrastructure Ordering.
• Transient Guests
  Examples on how to create Transient guests, and working with web hooks.
• Understanding and building an order using the Softlayer order CLI
  In version 5.4.0 of softlayer-python, there is a new slcli command for placing IaaS cloud server orders using the API. This command can also be used to place orders for products that are normally ordered through the IBM Cloud infrastructure customer portal.
• VSI Flavors
  Our public virtual server offering now comes in four distinct virtual server families: balanced, balanced local storage, compute, and memory. With this enhancement, IBM continues its effort to provide you with a first-class public cloud experience by taking the guesswork out of provisioning the right instance flavor for your workload needs.

php

• Order an SSL Certificate
  Explains how to get the information requried to order an SSL Certificate
• Order Firewall and Security Appliances
  An example of how to order a hardware firewall and a FortiGate security appliance
• Order Server with security software
  An example of how to include add-on software to a server order
• Order a vyatta server with placeOrder
  Orders a vyatta server. The priceIds may be invalid now, please double check them before running.
• Upgrade virtual guest
  Upgrades a virtual guest immediately.
• Required price IDs for package
  For any package retrieve a list of options organized by required category

python

• Working with Quotes
  A few examples on interacting with Quotes
• Working with Network Storage
  A few examples on interacting with network storage. Ordring volumes and setting notes from that orderId
• Manage Users
  A script to create users and a script to disable users. Used mostly for setting up lab users and then cleaning up after.
• List items for a Server Order
  The script displays the available data centers and items for a package.
• Order an SSL Certificate
  Explains how to get the information requried to order an SSL Certificate
• List Packages
  A handy script with a few examples on how to interact with packages
• Required price IDs for package
  For any package retrieve a list of options organized by required category

rest

• Ordering with placeOrder
  Example on how to call verifyOrder / placeOrder via REST. Replace the veryifyOrder call with placeOrder when you are actually ready to order the server

ruby

• List Packages
  A handy script with a few examples on how to interact with packages
• Create a virtual server from an existing image template
  Provide an image template with a virtual machine order instead of an OS code.