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
Not sure what I'm missing here, and I appreciate any advice.
Dependencies must be installed into Salt's environment, which since 3006 is by default not the system Python.
Use salt-pip to manage Salt's dependencies. In this case, salt-pip install apache-libcloud.