Apache libcloud - a unified interface into the cloud

The goal of this project is to create a basic yet functional standard library into various cloud providers.

Apache libcloud is an incubator project at the Apache Software Foundation, see http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud for more information.

For API documentation and examples, see: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/getting-started.html

Important Security Note

Python's built-in SSL module does not do certificate validation.

To address this, we've introduced the libcloud.security module with tunable parameters.

View the entire guide at: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/LibcloudSSL

Enabling SSL Certificate Check

import libcloud.security libcloud.security.VERIFY_SSL_CERT = True

optionally, add to CA_CERTS_PATH

libcloud.security.CA_CERTS_PATH.append("/path/to/your/cacerts.txt")

CA_CERTS_PATH contains common paths to CA bundle installations on the following platforms:

• openssl on CentOS/Fedora
• ca-certificates on Debian/Ubuntu/Arch/Gentoo
• ca_root_nss on FreeBSD
• curl-ca-bundle on Mac OS X

Note for OS X Users

OS X root certificates are stored in the Keychain format, unlike the standard PEM format available on other *nix platforms. For this reason, it is not possible to include the standard OS X root certificates with CA_CERTS_PATH.

Acquiring CA Certificates

If the above packages are unavailable to you, and you don't wish to roll your own, the makers of cURL provides an excellent resource, generated from Mozilla: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

Feedback

Please send feedback to the mailing list at libcloud@incubator.apache.org, or the JIRA at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD.