oci
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Python SDK
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. The SDK is production-stable, actively maintained (released 3 days ago), has low install friction, and carries no known vulnerabilities. It is the canonical way to interact with OCI from Python. Install it if you need to programmatically manage OCI resources or integrate OCI services into Python applications. The dual permissive license poses no restriction.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires a valid OCI configuration file at ~/.oci/config with credentials and tenancy information; see Oracle's installation guide for setup.
- Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution.
- Actively maintained with a release 3 days old.
License · maintenance · safety
permissive license (permissive) — Dual-licensed under UPL 1.0 or Apache 2.0, both permissive. You may choose either license, giving flexibility for commercial or open-source projects without copyleft obligations.
last release 2026-08-11 (3 days)
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 12,485,129 downloads/mo, #1,317 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install oci
import oci
config = oci.config.from_file('~/.oci/config', 'DEFAULT')
identity = oci.identity.IdentityClient(config)
user = identity.get_user(config['user']).data- Whether the SDK supports all current OCI service offerings or if some services require separate/newer versions.
- Performance characteristics and rate-limiting behavior when making many concurrent API calls.
- Whether circuitbreaker dependency is used for automatic retry/backoff or if manual error handling is required.
What it is and what it does
The oci package is Oracle's official Python SDK for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It provides a programmatic interface to OCI services through typed service clients, allowing you to manage cloud resources, query identity and access control, and interact with storage, compute, and other OCI offerings from Python code. The SDK handles authentication via OCI configuration files, manages HTTP communication with cryptographic security, and abstracts the underlying REST API into Python objects and method calls.
You install it via pip into a virtual environment and configure it with OCI credentials. The typical workflow is to load a configuration file, instantiate a service client for the OCI service you need (such as IdentityClient, ComputeClient, or ObjectStorageClient), and call methods on that client to perform operations. The SDK manages request signing, retries via circuitbreaker, and response parsing automatically.
Use it for
- Automate provisioning and management of OCI compute instances, networks, and storage from Python scripts or applications.
- Query OCI identity and access control to audit users, groups, and permissions programmatically.
- Build monitoring or cost-analysis tools that pull data from OCI services via the SDK.
- Integrate OCI resource management into CI/CD pipelines or infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Develop multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud applications that interact with OCI alongside other cloud providers.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
The SDK is production-stable, actively maintained (released 3 days ago), has low install friction, and carries no known vulnerabilities. It is the canonical way to interact with OCI from Python. Install it if you need to programmatically manage OCI resources or integrate OCI services into Python applications. The dual permissive license poses no restriction.
Install
oci on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution. Actively maintained with a release 3 days old. Depends on 10 well-established runtime libraries including cryptography, urllib3, and PyJWT for secure communication and authentication.
Requires a valid OCI configuration file at ~/.oci/config with credentials and tenancy information; see Oracle's installation guide for setup.
License in practice
Dual-licensed under UPL 1.0 or Apache 2.0, both permissive. You may choose either license, giving flexibility for commercial or open-source projects without copyleft obligations.
Quickstart
pip install oci
import oci
config = oci.config.from_file('~/.oci/config', 'DEFAULT')
identity = oci.identity.IdentityClient(config)
user = identity.get_user(config['user']).dataVerify before relying
- Whether the SDK supports all current OCI service offerings or if some services require separate/newer versions.
- Performance characteristics and rate-limiting behavior when making many concurrent API calls.
- Whether circuitbreaker dependency is used for automatic retry/backoff or if manual error handling is required.
Package facts
| License | permissive license permissive |
| Python support | Not specified |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 10 packagescertificryptographypyOpenSSLpython-dateutilpytzconfigparserurllib3PyJWTcircuitbreakercrc32c |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 3 days since the last release |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 12,485,129 / month, #1,317 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software LicenseLicense :: OSI Approved :: Universal Permissive License (UPL)Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9 |
Evidence: oci-2.184.1-py3-none-any.whl
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