apache/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. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
76/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6109
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 14
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2124 stars · 929 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that provides a unified API for interacting with more than 50 cloud service providers, hiding differences between their APIs. It covers six main resource areas: compute, storage, load balancers, DNS, containers, and backup.
Use cases
- manage cloud servers across multiple providers from one Python API
- avoid vendor lock-in when provisioning VMs
- upload files to S3 or other object storage programmatically
- create and manage DNS records across providers
- manage load balancers and container services uniformly
- script multi-cloud infrastructure automation in Python
When to choose
- you need to work with many cloud providers through one consistent interface
- you want to avoid provider-specific SDKs and vendor lock-in
- you are building Python tooling for multi-cloud provisioning or storage
When to avoid
- you only target a single cloud provider and want its full native feature set
- you need infrastructure-as-code tooling rather than a programmatic library
- you need a provider or API not among the supported drivers
Facets
library · maturity stable
cloud sdk developer-tools cloud-computing developer-tools apis infrastructure-as-code python cross-platform cloud-providers multi-cloud compute object-storage dns load-balancers containers backup apache
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/apache/libcloud · fetched 2026-08-28 · 39bf404f00a2
- homepage: https://libcloud.apache.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2d03289bad64
- site_page: https://libcloud.apache.org/about.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · c62e25b318ca
- site_page: https://libcloud.apache.org/getting-started.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 75690e4218e4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| apache/libcloud | main | 76 |
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