{"categories":[{"label":"Distributed Computing","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-distributed-computing/3"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"pylxd provides a Python interface to the LXD REST API, enabling programmatic control of LXD containers and virtual machines.","skillfed_tags":["container-management","lxd-client","infrastructure-automation"],"use_cases":["Automate container provisioning and lifecycle management in Python-based infrastructure-as-code tools.","Build monitoring or management dashboards that query and control LXD containers programmatically.","Integrate LXD container operations into CI/CD pipelines or deployment orchestration scripts.","Write administrative tools to batch-manage containers, snapshots, and resource allocation across LXD hosts."],"what_it_does":"pylxd is a Python client library for the LXD container and virtual machine manager, maintained by Canonical. It wraps the LXD REST API to let you create, configure, start, stop, and manage containers and VMs programmatically from Python code. The library depends on cryptography, requests, requests-toolbelt, python-dateutil, and ws4py for HTTP communication, secure operations, and WebSocket support.\n\nYou use it when you need to automate LXD operations\u2014provisioning containers, orchestrating deployments, or integrating LXD into larger Python-based infrastructure tools. It's aimed at system administrators and developers working with LXD on Linux systems who want to avoid shell scripting or direct REST calls.","worth_installing":"Yes. pylxd is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, installs cleanly with common dependencies, and is the standard Python client for LXD. Install it if you need to automate LXD operations from Python; skip it if you only use LXD from the command line or don't manage LXD systems."},"id":"pylxd","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pylxd","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pylxd.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/pylxd/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-04-06","license_spdx":"Apache-2.0","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"pylxd","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Python library for interacting with the LXD REST API"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":78366,"position":14447,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"2.4.1"}