# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/apache/libcloud
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/libcloud
Homepage: https://libcloud.apache.org
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, libcloud, cloud, library, apache
Last push: 2026-08-19T04:32:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6109, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2124, forks 929 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.784308+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cloud, sdk, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, apis, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: cloud-providers, multi-cloud, compute, object-storage, dns, load-balancers, containers, backup, apache

## Member repositories
- apache/libcloud (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.784308+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 2026-08-30T02:52:47.655866+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/apache/libcloud (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.784308+00:00, sha 39bf404f00a2)
  - homepage: https://libcloud.apache.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:40.367161+00:00, sha 2d03289bad64)
  - site_page: https://libcloud.apache.org/about.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:40.409834+00:00, sha c62e25b318ca)
  - site_page: https://libcloud.apache.org/getting-started.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:40.412530+00:00, sha 75690e4218e4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.