Apache Libcloud - a unified interface into the cloud
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Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different
cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources
through a unified and easy to use API.

Resources you can manage with Libcloud are divided into the following categories:

* **Compute** - Cloud Servers and Block Storage - services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace
  Cloud Servers (``libcloud.compute.*``)
* **Storage** - Cloud Object Storage and CDN  - services such as Amazon S3 and Rackspace
  CloudFiles (``libcloud.storage.*``)
* **Load Balancers** - Load Balancers as a Service, LBaaS (``libcloud.loadbalancer.*``)
* **DNS** - DNS as a Service, DNSaaS (``libcloud.dns.*``)
* **Container** - Container virtualization services (``libcloud.container.*``)


Apache Libcloud is an Apache project, see <http://libcloud.apache.org> for
more information.

Documentation
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Documentation can be found at <https://libcloud.readthedocs.org>.

Feedback
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Please send feedback to the mailing list at <dev@libcloud.apache.org>,
or the JIRA at <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD>.

Contributing
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For information on how to contribute, please see the Contributing
chapter in our documentation
<https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/development.html#contributing>

License
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Apache Libcloud is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. For more information, please see LICENSE_ and NOTICE_  file.

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