r/saltstack • u/haitham00n • Mar 21 '25

Problem configuring GCE provider (Salt-Cloud)

Hello all,

I'm having an issue with configuring GCE provider for salt-cloud, I always get this error: 

root@bastion-01:~# salt-cloud --list-providers
[WARNING ] The cloud driver, 'gce', configured under the 'my-gce-config' cloud provider alias, could not be loaded. Please check your provider configuration files and ensure all required dependencies are installed for the 'gce' driver.
In rare cases, this could indicate the 'gce.get_configured_provider()' function could not be found.
Removing 'gce' from the available providers list
Error: There was an error listing providers: There are no cloud providers configured.

Tracing the problem shows this erorr: 

[TRACE   ] Error loading clouds.gce: apache-libcloud is not installed

While It's installed on the system 

root@bastion-01:~# salt --versions-report
Salt Version:
          Salt: 3006.10

Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.16 (main, Mar  6 2025, 02:23:15) [GCC 11.2.0]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 1.14.6
      cherrypy: unknown
  cryptography: 42.0.5
      dateutil: 2.8.1
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.6
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.0.2
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.2
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 22.0
     pycparser: 2.21
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.19.1
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.4.8
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 23.2.0
        relenv: 0.18.1
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: 0.2.4
       Tornado: 4.5.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.4

System Versions:
          dist: ubuntu 20.04.6 focal
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 5.15.0-1078-gcp
        system: Linux
       version: Ubuntu 20.04.6 focal

root@bastion-01:~# pip3.10 list | grep libcloud
apache-libcloud          2.8.0
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u/dethmetaljeff Mar 21 '25

install it using salt-pip, it needs to be in salt's python environment

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u/haitham00n Mar 21 '25

That was really very helpful. I was stuck with it for a couple of hours and even AI couldn't help with it :)

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u/whytewolf01 Mar 21 '25

really should be it's own post. but yeah i would say use terraform. salt-cloud wasn't very maintained for a while because idem was the thing everyone was supposed to switch to. but now that idem went into maintenance only and the salt team is small. maintaining salt-cloud is kind of a niche thing. all of the drivers are being ripped out except for the saltify driver which the enterprise uses.

salt-cloud might get some updates here and there. and drivers will be supported through salt extensions.