Libcloud
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy-to-use API.
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Apache Libcloud - a unified interface for the cloud
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
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:Code: https://github.com/apache/libcloud :License: Apache 2.0; see LICENSE file :Issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/LIBCLOUD/issues :Website: https://libcloud.apache.org/ :Documentation: https://libcloud.readthedocs.io :Supported Python Versions: Python >= 3.10, PyPy >= 3.10, Python 3.10 + Pyjion (Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 is supported by the v2.8.x release series, last version which supports Python 3.5 is v3.4.0, v3.6.x for Python 3.6, and v3.9.x for Python 3.9, v3.8.x for Python 3.7 and 3.8)
Resources you can manage with Libcloud are divided into the following categories:
- Compute - Cloud Servers and Block Storage - services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace
Cloud Servers (
libcloud.compute.*) - Storage - Cloud Object Storage and CDN - services such as Amazon S3 and Rackspace
CloudFiles (
libcloud.storage.*) - Load Balancers - Load Balancers as a Service, LBaaS (
libcloud.loadbalancer.*) - DNS - DNS as a Service, DNSaaS (
libcloud.dns.*) - Container - Container virtualization services (
libcloud.container.*)
Apache Libcloud is an Apache project, see http://libcloud.apache.org for more information.
Documentation
Documentation can be found at https://libcloud.readthedocs.org.
Note on Python Version Compatibility
Libcloud supports Python >= 3.10 and PyPy >= 3.10.
- Support for Python 3.9 has been dropped. Last release series which supports Python 3.9 is v3.9.x.
- Support for Python 3.7 and 3.8 has been dropped in v3.9.0 release. Last release series which supports Python 3.7 and 3.8 is v3.8.x.
- Support for Python 3.6 has been dropped in v3.7.0 release. Last release series which supports Python 3.6 is v3.6.x.
- Support for Python 3.5 has been dropped in v3.5.0 release.
- Last release series which supports Python 3.5 is v3.4.x.
- Support for Python 2.7 and 3.4 has been dropped in Libcloud v3.0.0 (last release series which support Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 is v2.8.x).
Feedback
Please send feedback to the mailing list at dev@libcloud.apache.org, or Github repo at https://github.com/apache/libcloud/issues.
Contributing
For information on how to contribute, please see the Contributing chapter in our documentation https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/development.html#contributing.
Website
Source code for the website is available at https://github.com/apache/libcloud-site.
License
Apache Libcloud is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. For more information, please see LICENSE_ and NOTICE_ file.
Security
This is a project of the Apache Software Foundation <https://apache.org>_ and
follows the ASF
vulnerability handling process <https://apache.org/security/#vulnerability-handling>_.
Reporting a Vulnerability
To report a new vulnerability you have discovered please follow the
ASF vulnerability reporting process <https://apache.org/security/#reporting-a-vulnerability>_.
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