# gophercloud/gophercloud

Gophercloud: an OpenStack SDK for Go

Repository: https://github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gophercloud
Homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: openstack, go, sdk
Last push: 2026-09-02T14:22:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4038, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 48, "n_releases_24m": 16}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1014, forks 608 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:12.476311+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: sdk, http-client, auth
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, apis, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: openstack, keystone, cloud-api-client, golang

## Member repositories
- gophercloud/gophercloud (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:12.476311+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:45.575318+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:12.476311+00:00, sha 95d521a89a01)
  - homepage: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2 (fetched 2026-08-29T13:11:20.501783+00:00, sha 81e5b09f3492)
  - site_page: https://pkg.go.dev/about (fetched 2026-08-29T13:11:20.513455+00:00, sha 757852027879)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.