“libcloud represents a fundamental change in the way clouds are managed, breaking the barriers of proprietary, closed clouds. We at Linode believe this is of the utmost importance and fully support this effort.”
- Christopher S. Aker, Linode, Founder
“Libcloud will make life easier for our customers. We appreciate and support this standardization tool.”
- Matt Tanase, Slicehost, Founder
“I'm excited to see the development of projects, like libcloud, that help make the lives of the cloud computing community easier by offering a standardized way to communicate with their provider of choice.”
- Bret Piatt, Rackspace, Technical Alliance Manager
“We believe in an open cloud and are thrilled to see libcloud push the movement forward.”
- Paul Lancaster, GoGrid, Business Development Manager

Apache Libcloud

Apache Libcloud is a standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.

The current version allows users to manage four different cloud resources:

Compute part of the library is the oldest one and it currently supports more than 26 different providers.

For a full list of the supported providers functionality, please see the Supported Providers page.