knife softlayer server create with monthly billing

Question

I am trying to create new VSI in Softlayer with monthly billing using knife softlayer plugin, there is tag for that:

--billing-monthly

but seems its now working. Also I tried as:

• '--billing-monthly'
• '--billing-monthly true'
• '--billing-monthly=true'

but nothting are working, it always creates hourly billed VSI

Answer 1

There is an issue reported about that:

• An hourly VSI is created instead of a Monthly server instance

  It seems that the bill_monthly flag is not being considered in the code:

• https://github.com/softlayer/knife-softlayer/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/softlayer_server_create.rb#L65

I recommend to use a programming language or another way to order servers.

To see available programming languages suported by SoftLayer:

• SoftLayer Development Network

JIC: Here an example using Ruby Client, you need to set hourly flag as false:

• Create a virtual server from an existing image template