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id: ibm-vpc
version: "0.34.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# ibm-vpc — Python client library for IBM Cloud ibm-vpc Services

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 187.9K/mo

## What it is and what it does

The IBM Cloud VPC Python SDK is a client library that wraps the IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud Service APIs, allowing developers to manage cloud infrastructure programmatically. It provides methods to list, create, update, and delete VPCs, subnets, instances, and other VPC resources directly from Python code. The library handles authentication via IBM Cloud IAM, request formatting, and response parsing, abstracting away the details of HTTP communication with the IBM Cloud platform.

Typical use involves instantiating a VpcV1 service object with IAM credentials, then calling methods like list_vpcs(), list_subnets(), and update_instance() to interact with your cloud infrastructure. The SDK depends on ibm_cloud_sdk_core for authentication and common SDK utilities, and python_dateutil for date handling. It is actively maintained, supports Python 3.10 and later, and carries no known security vulnerabilities.

Use it for:

- Automate provisioning and teardown of VPC infrastructure in CI/CD pipelines.
- Build management dashboards or monitoring tools that query VPC resources programmatically.
- Rename, update, or reconfigure instances and subnets without manual console interaction.
- Enumerate and audit all VPCs, subnets, and instances in an IBM Cloud account.
- Integrate VPC operations into larger infrastructure-as-code workflows.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Python client library for programmatically managing IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources—VPCs, subnets, instances, and related infrastructure—via the IBM Cloud VPC Service APIs.

Yes, if you need to manage IBM Cloud VPC resources from Python. The library is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and is released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. Be aware that minor version updates (0.y.z) may introduce breaking changes per semantic versioning, so pin your version in production. Requires Python 3.10+ and a valid IBM Cloud API key.

## Install

pip install ibm-vpc
uv add ibm-vpc
poetry add ibm-vpc

## Installing ibm-vpc

Before you install: Low install friction with only two runtime dependencies (ibm_cloud_sdk_core and python_dateutil). Actively maintained with a recent release; last commit 2026-08-10 and repository not archived.

License in practice: Released under Apache 2.0 (permissive license), allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install ibm-vpc

from ibm_vpc import VpcV1
from ibm_cloud_sdk_core.authenticators import IAMAuthenticator

authenticator = IAMAuthenticator("YOUR_IBMCLOUD_API_KEY")
service = VpcV1(authenticator=authenticator)
vpcs = service.list_vpcs().get_result()['vpcs']

Requires Python 3.10 or above and a valid IBM Cloud IAM API key for authentication.

Verify before relying:

- Backward compatibility guarantees across 0.y.z versions—the description mentions semantic versioning with potential breaking changes in minor versions.
- Whether all VPC service operations documented in the IBM Cloud VPC API are fully implemented in this SDK version.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 187.9K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

ibm cloud vpc python sdk, vpc infrastructure as code, ibm cloud resource management, virtual private cloud api client, ibm cloud instance management, cloud networking python library, ibm vpc automation, ibm-cloud, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-networking

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