---
id: stackit-core
version: "0.3.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# stackit-core — Core functionality for the STACKIT SDK for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 85.3K/mo

## What it is and what it does

stackit-core is the foundational package for the STACKIT Python SDK, a client library for interacting with STACKIT cloud services. It handles authentication (key flow and token flow), configuration management, and provides shared REST client functionality that service-specific packages depend on. The package is in beta and actively developed.

The core module manages credential discovery from multiple sources (explicit configuration, environment variables, or a credentials file), supports RSA-based key authentication and token-based flows, and allows custom endpoint configuration for different STACKIT environments. It depends on cryptography, pydantic, pyjwt, requests, and urllib3 to handle secure communication and credential validation.

Use it for:

- Set up centralized authentication configuration for multiple STACKIT service clients in a single application.
- Implement custom retry logic or proxy settings by extending the SDK's configuration options.
- Authenticate to STACKIT services using service account keys stored in JSON files or environment variables.
- Connect to custom or non-standard STACKIT endpoints by configuring custom token and API endpoints.

## Worth the install?

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

Provides core authentication, configuration, and shared REST client functionality for the STACKIT Python SDK service packages.

Yes, if you are using other STACKIT service packages (stackit-redis, stackit-iaas, etc.). stackit-core is a required dependency for all service clients and handles the authentication and configuration layer. Install it as part of a service package rather than standalone, unless you are developing custom integrations.

## Install

pip install stackit-core
uv add stackit-core
poetry add stackit-core

## Installing stackit-core

Before you install: Low install friction with 5 standard runtime dependencies. Actively maintained with a release 25 days ago; repository shows recent activity and is not archived.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache Software License (permissive), allowing commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install stackit-core

from stackit.core.configuration import Configuration

config = Configuration(
    service_account_key_path="/path/to/sa_key.json"
)
# Use config with service clients from other stackit packages

Requires Python 3.10 or later; service account credentials (key or token) needed for authentication.

Verify before relying:

- Whether stackit-core alone is useful without installing a specific service package (redis, iaas, etc.)
- Whether the SDK's custom endpoint feature works as documented in production environments

## Package facts

- License: not declared (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 85.3K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

stackit sdk core, stackit authentication, stackit service client, stackit python sdk, cloud api client library, cloud-sdk, authentication

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