title: Compute -> Base API

## Base API ##

* [list_nodes](#list_nodes)
* [list_images](#list_images)
* [list_sizes](#list_sizes)
* [list_locations](#list_locations)
* [create_node](#create_node)
* [deploy_node](#deploy_node)
* [reboot_node](#reboot_node)
* [destroy_node](#destroy_node)

<h3 id="list_nodes">list_nodes</h3>

**Method signature**:
[driver.list_nodes()](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#list_nodes)  
**Description**: Return a list of all the nodes belonging to your account.  

<h3 id="list_images">list_images</h3>

**Method signature**:
[driver.list_images()](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#list_images)  
**Description**: Return a list of all the available images.

<h3 id="list_sizes">list_sizes</h3>

**Method signature**:
[driver.list_sizes()](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#list_sizes)  
**Description**: Return a list of all the available sizes.

<h3 id="list_locations">list_locations</h3>

**Method signature**:
[driver.list_locations()](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#list_locations)  
**Description**: Return a list of all the available locations.

<h3 id="create_node">create_node</h3>

**Method signature**:
[driver.create_node(name, size, image)](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#create_node)  
**Description**: Create a new node instance.

Keep in mind that a lot drivers also take additional optional keyword arguments
which are documented in the each driver API docs page.

<h3 id="deploy_node">deploy_node</h3>

**Method signature**: [driver.deploy_node(name, size, image,
deploy)](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#deploy_node)  
**Description**: Create a new node instance and run a deployment script on it.
More about deployment functionality can be found on the [Deployment
page](/docs/compute-deployment.html).

<h3 id="reboot_node">reboot_node</h3>

**Method signature**:
[driver.reboot_node(node)](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#reboot_node), 
[node.reboot()](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.Node.html#reboot)  
**Description**: Restart a node.

<h3 id="destroy_node">destroy_node</h3>

**Method signature**:
[driver.destroy_node(node)](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.NodeDriver.html#destroy_node),
[node.destroy()](/apidocs/current/libcloud.compute.base.Node.html#destroy)  
**Description**: Destroy a running or stopped node. This operation will in most cases also
destroy all the data (disk, snapshots, etc.) associated with this node so
be careful when you use it.