Managing the cloud with libcloud

libcloud is an open-source client library for interacting with different cloud providers.

The primary goal of the library is to abstract all the provider differences away and expose common functionality in a nice, clean and concise API.

This talk will address the following topics:

• Why a library like this was built in the first place
• Different problems we have encountered while building it (not all the providers always play nice)
• An introduction to the library API (compute, storage and load-balancer part)
• How to use it to build something useful and fun
• How to participate and contribute
• Roadmap and plans for the future