gophercloud/gophercloud

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Gophercloud is a Go SDK for the OpenStack cloud platform, providing clients for OpenStack services such as Keystone identity, Compute, and Storage. It handles authentication (via clouds.yaml, environment variables, or tokens) and exposes typed API clients for building OpenStack tooling in Go.

Use cases

• manage openstack resources from go code
• authenticate against keystone in a go application
• provision openstack vms programmatically
• build a kubernetes cloud provider for openstack
• script openstack api calls in go
• read clouds.yaml credentials in go

When to choose

• you are writing Go software that talks to OpenStack APIs
• you need idiomatic, typed OpenStack clients with token-based auth
• you are building OpenStack integrations like cloud providers or automation tools

When to avoid

• you work with AWS, GCP, or Azure rather than OpenStack
• you just need ad-hoc CLI interaction - the openstack CLI may suffice
• your project is not in Go

Facets

library · maturity stable

sdk http-client auth cloud-computing developer-tools apis infrastructure-as-code go cross-platform openstack keystone cloud-api-client golang

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