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| title: Apache Libcloud is a standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs | |
| description: Python library for interacting with many of the popular cloud service providers using a unified API. | |
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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 3.5+ only): <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-libcloud/3.5.0" target="_blank">3.5.0</a> (March 11th, 2022)</p> | |
| <p>Latest bug-fix only version (Python 3.5+ only): <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-libcloud/3.4.1" target="_blank">3.4.1</a> (November 11th, 2021)</p> | |
| <p>Latest bug-fix only version (Python 2 and Python 3): <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-libcloud/2.8.3" target="_blank">2.8.3</a> (June 12th, 2020)</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> | |
| <ul> | |
| <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, PyPy (3.x and 2.x) and 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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| <div class="col-md-6 example" data-example="dns-1"> | |
| <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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| <a href="http://www.saltstack.com/community/" alt="SaltStack" title="SaltStack - Central system and configuration manager" rel="tooltip" "target="_blank"><img src="/images/whois-using/saltstack.png" class="logo" /></a> | |
| <a href="https://www.cloudcontrol.com" alt="CloudControl" title="cloudControl - Rock-solid European Platform as a Service" rel="tooltip" target="_blank"><img src="/images/whois-using/cloudcontrol.png" class="logo" /></a> | |
| <a href="https://mist.io" alt="mist.io" title="mist.io - Cloud management in your pocket" rel="tooltip" target="_blank"><img src="/images/whois-using/mistio.png" class="logo" /></a> | |
| </div> | |
| <div class="whos-using text-center"> | |
| <a href="http://www.scalr.com" alt="Scalr" title="Scalr - Enterprise Cloud Management Platform" rel="tooltip" target="_blank"><img src="/images/whois-using/scalr.png" class="logo" /></a> | |
| <a href="http://www.rackspace.com" alt="Rackspace" title="Rackspace - The Open Cloud Company" rel="tooltip" target="_blank"><img src="/images/whois-using/rackspace.png" class="logo" /></a> | |
| <a href="http://www.divvycloud.com/" alt="DivvyCloud" title="DivvyCloud - Hybrid Cloud Management" rel="tooltip" target="_blank"><img src="/images/whois-using/divvycloud.png" class="logo" /></a> | |
| </div> | |
| <p>See <a href="/whois-using.html">more projects and companies</a> using Libcloud.</p> | |
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| <h3>Get in Touch, Follow Us</h3> | |
| <p>Users mailing list: <a href="mailto:users-subscribe@libcloud.apache.org">users@libcloud.apache.org</a></p> | |
| <p>Developers mailing list: <a href="mailto:dev-subscribe@libcloud.apache.org">dev@libcloud.apache.org</a></p> | |
| <p>IRC channel: <a href="https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#libcloud">#libcloud on Libera.Chat</a></p> | |
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