One Interface To Rule Them All

Python library for interacting with many of the popular cloud service providers using a unified API.

Supports more than 50 providers such as

Installation

Latest stable version (Python 3.5+ only): 3.5.0 (March 11th, 2022)

Latest bug-fix only version (Python 3.5+ only): 3.4.1 (November 11th, 2021)

Latest bug-fix only version (Python 2 and Python 3): 2.8.3 (June 12th, 2020)

pip install apache-libcloud

Or download it from our servers and install it manually.

Features

Avoid vendor lock-in
Use the same API to talk to many different providers
More than 30 supported providers total
Six main APIs: Compute, Storage, Load Balancers, DNS, Container, Backup
Supports Python 3, PyPy (3.x and 2.x) and Python 2.7 (v2.8.x release series)

Compute Example - Create a node

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)

For information on what the code does, click or hover over the line.

For more compute examples, see documentation.

DNS Example - Create a DNS record

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)