Re: [ansible-project] Apache Libcloud looks interesting

[Matt Martz]

libcloud has been around for quite some time now.  Several modules in ansible use it (The Google Compute Engine modules).

For a unified API it is pretty nice, but it often lacks full functionality for the APIs usually due to maintaining consistence between providers.

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Matt Martz
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On February 7, 2014 at 4:29:31 PM, giulianob (gbar...@aotaonline.com) wrote:

http://libcloud.apache.org/

Is this something new? It looks like it could be a really useful lib for Ansible to add more support to more providers with a unified api. Here are the list of providers they support: https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/supported_providers.html

Sorry if this has been discussed before or is popular. I just saw it on HN and thought of Ansible.

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[Michael DeHaan]

Yep.

Our policy is to use the native bindings for a particular provider whenever available to expose the maximum number of knobs and switches.

libcloud works when something else better doesn't exist in Python, or if that's the primary way the community around that particular provider does things.