The shade library has been officially depreciated and is no longer supported.

After Python3.9 it will no longer be usable.

root@2916d0feed28:/# python3.8
Python 3.8.0 (default, Dec  9 2021, 17:53:27)

>>> from collections import Mapping
<stdin>:1: DeprecationWarning: Using or importing the ABCs from 'collections' instead of from 'collections.abc' is deprecated since Python 3.3, and in 3.9 it will stop working

Current issue

https://jenkins.opendaylight.org/releng/job/bgpcep-csit-1node-bgp-ingest-mixed-all-argon/172/consoleFull 

17:37:25 + lftools openstack --os-cloud vex stack create releng-bgpcep-csit-1node-bgp-ingest-mixed-all-argon-172 csit-2-instance-type.yaml /w/workspace/bgpcep-csit-1node-bgp-ingest-mixed-all-argon/stack-parameters.yaml
17:37:26 Creating stack releng-bgpcep-csit-1node-bgp-ingest-mixed-all-argon-172
17:37:26 AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Mapping'
17:37:26 
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
17:37:26 $ ssh-agent -k

https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/shade/stein.html 

The relationship between shade and openstacksdk has been decoupled and the shade library is now officially in maintenance mode.

Shade is used in lftools/openstack/(object, server, stack and volume).py