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<h1 id="about">About</h1>
<p>Libcloud is a Python library for interacting with many of the popular cloud
service providers using a unified API. It was created to make it easy for
developers to build products that work between any of the services that it
supports.</p>
<p>Resource you can manage with Libcloud are divided in the following categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>Cloud Servers and Block Storage - services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace
CloudServers</li>
<li>Cloud Object Storage and CDN - services such as Amazon S3 and Rackspace
CloudFiles</li>
<li>Load Balancers as a Service - services such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
and GoGrid LoadBalancers</li>
<li>DNS as a Service - services such as Amazon Route 53 and Zerigo</li>
<li>Containers as a Service - services such as Amazon Elastic Containers (ECS)
and Google Container Engine (GKE)</li>
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<p>For more information about the features and supported providers, please refer
to the <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/stable/">documentation</a>.</p>
<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>Libcloud was originally developed and open-sourced in 2009 by folks at
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudkick">Cloudkick</a>. It was developed to solve a problem of talking to multiple
different cloud provider APIs.</p>
<p>Later that year, the project joined Apache Incubator. In May of 2011,
the project graduated from the incubator to a top level project.</p>
<p>For a full timeline of the events and other important dates, please see the
“Important Milestones and Dates” section bellow.</p>
<h2 id="supported-python-versions">Supported Python Versions</h2>
<p>Libcloud supports the following Python version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Python 3.7 (since 2.5.0)</li>
<li>Python 3.8 (since 2.7.0)</li>
<li>Python 3.9 (since 3.3.0)</li>
<li>Python 3.10 (since 3.5.0)</li>
<li>Python 3.11 (since 3.6.0)</li>
<li>PyPy 3.7+</li>
</ul>
<p>Support for Python 3.6 has been dropped in <strong>Libcloud 3.7.0</strong>.</p>
<p>Support for Python 3.5 has been dropped in <strong>Libcloud 3.6.0</strong>.</p>
<p>Support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 has been dropped in
<strong>Libcloud 3.0.0</strong>.</p>
<p>First version which included Python 3 support was 0.7.1.</p>
<p>Support for Python 2.4 has been dropped in <strong>Libcloud 0.4.0</strong>, Python 2.5 in
2016 and Python 2.6 and 3.3 in <strong>Libcloud 2.3.0</strong>.</p>
<h2 id="release-schedule">Release Schedule</h2>
<p>We don’t follow a regular releases schedule as you might know it from other
projects such as Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Here are the guidelines we follow when scheduling and preparing a release:</p>
<ol>
<li>Normal (stable) release - We prepare and get the release out as soon as
enough changes accumulate in trunk.</li>
<li>Bug fix release - It depends on the severity of a bug and how many users
it affects. If it affects a lot of users or a big chunk of the code we try
to prepare and get the release out as soon as possible.</li>
<li>Security fix release - We prepare and get the release out as soon as
possible.</li>
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<h2 id="similar-libraries-in-other-languages">Similar Libraries in Other Languages</h2>
<p>As noted above, Libcloud is a Python library.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a similar library for a different language, you should
have a look at some of the libraries listed bellow:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jclouds.apache.org/">Apache Jclouds</a> - Java</li>
<li><a href="http://deltacloud.apache.org/">Apache Deltacloud</a> - Ruby, HTTP</li>
<li><a href="http://fog.io/">Fog</a> - Ruby</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/nodejitsu/pkgcloud">pkgcloud</a> - Node.js</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/esl/elibcloud">elibloud</a> - Erlang (Erlang wrapper around Libcloud)</li>
</ul>
<p>If you feel adventures, you should also have a look at <a href="https://github.com/islamgulov/libcloud.rest">Libcloud REST</a>, a
<a href="/gsoc-2012.html">Google Summer of Code 2012</a> project which exposes most of the Libcloud
functionality over HTTP.</p>
<h2 id="important-milestones-and-dates">Important Milestones and Dates</h2>
<ul>
<li>Summer 2009 - Libcloud development starts at Cloudkick</li>
<li>July 23, 2009 - <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120517182502/https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2009/jul/23/libcloud-announced/">First open-source version of Libcloud is released by folks
at Cloudkick</a></li>
<li>November 11th, 2009 - <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/projects/libcloud.html">Project enters Apache Incubator</a></li>
<li>March 22nd, 2011 - <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-libcloud/201103.mbox/%3CAANLkTi=aYQQfcZRJW0yz4Fhm8WeHSzDFbGM5tdsOz4sd@mail.gmail.com%3E">Website has been ported to Apache CMS</a></li>
<li>February 2nd, 2010 - First Apache release (0.2.0) is out</li>
<li>May 10th, 2011 - <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-libcloud/201105.mbox/%3CBANLkTimouwpSUkw-BVPV_KnpbfFgU6yqeQ@mail.gmail.com%3E">Community voting for graduation to a Top Level Project has started</a></li>
<li>May 19th, 2011 - <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces12">Project graduates to a top level project</a></li>
<li>May 19th, 2011 - <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces12">Project gets a chair - Tomaz Muraus</a></li>
<li>May 25, 2011 - <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201105.mbox/%3CBANLkTi%3DLqBidHLHUwAJSAWSzd-qSpad%2BdA%40mail.gmail.com%3E">Libcloud 0.5.0 which moves away from compute only and includes
support for object storage and load balancer API is released</a></li>
<li>November 5th, 2011 - <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201111.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmKkRPVeLjJ%2BCeTFU0wrW2QbyOz2bd3HVLi3Ydw283oDKQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E">Libcloud 0.6.0 which includes support for a new DNS
API is released</a></li>
<li>April 2012 - Libcloud participates in GSoC 2012. Student Ilgiz Islamgulov
works on “Libcloud REST interface” project.</li>
<li>August 30th, 2012 - <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/08/8th-year-of-google-summer-of-code-draws.html">Libcloud REST GSoC 2012 project has been successfully
completed</a></li>
<li>June 12th, 2011 - <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201306.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmLUxAri0Pkw8-sHHb5tF2tH-qxjU7GC1zwVaNbFT%3DrUMg%40mail.gmail.com%3EZ">Code repository has moved from SVN to git</a></li>
<li>July 2013 - Work has started on a new and improved documentation which is
now hosted on ReadTheDocs</li>
<li>April 2020 - <a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2020/04/15/libcloud-3-0-0-released.html">Libcloud 3.0.0 is released and we drop support for Python 2</a></li>
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