Apache Libcloud

Apache Libcloud was created to simplify the process of writing cloud-based services and applications.

Libcloud offers a common API which developers can use to abstract their operations onto, and let the library's code handle all the differences between all these services.

Developers can deploy Libcloud in their code, select the cloud service provider they want and if they want to change the provider at any later point, this can be done by modifying a few lines of code instead of replacing the entire library.

Libcloud is also infrastructure and purpose-agnostic, working with cloud computing companies that provide services ranging from basic data storage, to load balancing and even DNS.

What is new in this release:

• Improvements in the EC2 driver
• Improvements in the CloudStack driver
• Improvements in the Openstack driver
• Fixes a possible race condition in the deploy_node method

What is new in version 0.17.0:

• Improvements in the EC2 driver
• Improvements in the CloudStack driver
• Improvements in the Openstack driver
• Fixes a possible race condition in the deploy_node method

What is new in version 0.15.0:

• New compute driver for Outscale SAS and Outscale INC cloud.
• New compute driver for HP Public Cloud (Helion).
• New compute driver for Kili public cloud.
• Extension methods for the VPC Internet gateway management in the EC2 driver.
• Lower memory usage and faster parsing of large XML responses when lxml library is installed.

What is new in version 0.11.4:

• Fixed some of tests failures which happened in Python 3.3 due to randomized
• dictionary ordering.
• Fixed a bug where a numeric instead of a string value was used for the
• content-length header in VCloud driver.
• Don't ignore ex_force_service_region argument in the CloudFiles driver.
• Fixed a bug which caused the connection to not be closed when using Python
• 2.6 and calling get_object on an object which doesn't exist in the S3
• driver.

What is new in version 0.11.0:

• General:
• Install test files when installing the library. Tests module can now be
• imported by doing something like this: "from libcloud import test"
• Compute:
• New standard API and methods for managing storage volumes. Base API consists of the following methods: create_volume, destroy_volume, attach_volume, detach_volume.
• New driver for KT UCloud (http://home.ucloud.olleh.com/main.kt) based on the CloudStack driver.
• New Gridspot driver with a basic list and destroy functionality.
• Bug fixes:
• Plenty of them, please see the CHANGES file.

What is new in version 0.10.1:

• New driver for Joyent cloud
• New driver for VCL cloud
• A lot of improvements and new features in the Brightbox driver
• Support for Vmware vCloud version 1.5
• Modify ParamikoSSHClient to connect to the SSH agent and automatically
• look for private keys in ~/.ssh if the 'auth' and 'ssh_key' argument is not
• specified when calling deploy_node.
• Modify IBM driver so it works with IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise

What is new in version 0.9.1:

• A lot of improvements and additional functionality in the OpenStack driver. Now a generic OpenStack driver (Provider.OPENSTACK) also works with devstack.org and trystack.org installations.
• Improvements and better exception propagation in the deploy_node method.
• New driver for ElasticHosts Los Angeles and Toronto location.
• Support for new EC2 instance type - m1.medium.

What is new in version 0.7.1:

• New Las Vegas location for the CloudSigma provider
• Improvements to the OpenStack driver
• Improvements to the OpenNebula driver
• Support for Amazon EC2 new "Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large" instance size

What is new in version 0.6.1:

• Documentation:
• New documentation which is available at http://libcloud.apache.org/docs/
• General:
• SSL certificate validation is now enabled by default. If no CA certificate files are found on startup, an exception is thrown.
• Compute:
• New driver for Ninefold.com (also a first driver for public Australian cloud provider in Libcloud)
• Support for OpenStack 1.1 API and many other improvements in the OpenStack driver
• Linode driver now support a new Japan location
• Support for deployment using an SSH key
• Amazon EC2 driver now supports deploy functionality using an SSH key
• Storage:
• New driver for Google storage (http://code.google.com/apis/storage/)
• New driver for Ninefold.com storage (http://ninefold.com/cloud-storage/)
• Load Balancer:
• New driver for ninefold.com (https://ninefold.com/support/display/SPT/Load+Balancing)
• Rackspace driver now also supports UK location

What is new in version 0.4.0:

• Removed dependency on Zope.Interface.
• New driver for ElasticHosts.
• Bug fixes and improvements for GoGrid, EC2, Linode, Slicehost, and
• RimuHosting.

Requirements:

• Python 2.5 or higher