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      <h1>One Interface To Rule Them All</h1>
      <h2 class="tagline">Python library for interacting with many of the popular
        cloud service providers using a unified API.</h2>

      <p>Supports <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/supported_providers.html" target="_blank">more than 50</a> providers such as</p>

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        <h3>Installation</h3>
        <p>Latest stable version (Python 3.7+ only): <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-libcloud/3.8.0" target="_blank">3.8.0</a> (August 10th, 2023)</p>
        <p><code>pip install apache-libcloud</code></p>
        <p>Or <a href="downloads.html">download it from our servers</a> and install it manually.</p>
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        <h3>Features</h3>
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          <li>Avoid vendor lock-in</li>
          <li>Use the same API to talk to many different providers</li>
          <li>More than <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/supported_providers.html">
          30 supported providers</a> total</li>
          <li>Six main APIs:
          <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/compute/index.html">Compute</a>,
          <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/storage/index.html">Storage</a>,
          <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/loadbalancer/index.html">Load Balancers</a>,
          <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/dns/index.html">DNS</a>,
          <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/container/index.html">Container</a>,
          <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/backup/index.html">Backup</a></li>
          <li>Supports <a href="/about.html#supported-python-versions">Python 3.7+, PyPy 3.7+, Python 2.7 (v2.8.x release series)</a></li>
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        <h3>Compute Example - Create a node</h3>
        {% highlight python linedivs %}
from libcloud.compute.types import Provider
from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver

cls = get_driver(Provider.RACKSPACE)
driver = cls('username', 'api key', region='iad')

sizes = driver.list_sizes()
images = driver.list_images()

size = [s for s in sizes if s.id == 'performance1-1'][0]
image = [i for i in images if 'Ubuntu 18.04' in i.name][0]

node = driver.create_node(name='libcloud', size=size, image=image)
print(node)
{% endhighlight %}
        <p>For information on what the code does, click or hover over the line.</p>
        <p>For more compute examples, see <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/compute/examples.html">documentation</a>.</p>
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        <h3>DNS Example - Create a DNS record</h3>
        {% highlight python linedivs %}
from libcloud.dns.types import Provider, RecordType
from libcloud.dns.providers import get_driver

cls = get_driver(Provider.ZERIGO)
driver = cls('email', 'api key')

zones = driver.list_zones()
zone = [zone for zone in zones if zone.domain == 'mydomain.com'][0]

record = zone.create_record(name='www', type=RecordType.A, data='127.0.0.1')
print(record)
{% endhighlight %}
      <p>For information on what the code does, click or hover over the line.</p>
      <p>For more DNS examples, see <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/dns/examples.html">documentation</a>.</p>
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        <h3>Whois using Libcloud?</h3>

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