Manage cloud services (servers, storage, load balancers & DNS) offered by many different providers through a single, unified and easy to use API.
Each component is relatively self-sustainable and exposes a simple and easy to use base API which works across all the supported providers.
The software is published under an open source license.
Key Features
- Manage cloud servers – services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace CloudServers, Linode, and more than 20 others.
- Manage Cloud Storage – services such as Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, Google Storage and others.
- Load Balancers as a Service, LBaaS. Load Balancer API allows you to manage Load Balancers as a service and services such as Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers, GoGrid Load Balancers and Ninefold Load Balancers.
- DNS as a Service, DNSaaS. DNS API allows you to manage DNS as A Service and services such as Zerigo DNS, Rackspace Cloud DNS and others.
Website: libcloud.apache.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: Apache Software Foundation
License: Apache License Version 2.0
Libcloud is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Cloud Management Tools | |
|---|---|
| Puppet | Centralised configuration management for networks |
| Chef | Configuration management system written in Ruby |
| Libcloud | Unified interface to manage cloud services |
| Juju | Build entire environments in the cloud with only a few commands |
| Ganeti | Cluster virtual server management software tool |
| jclouds | Cloud agnostic library |
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