• Introduction
• The CloudShell DevGuide
• Setting up the Development Environment
• Extending cloudshell with shells
• Getting Started
• Shell Drivers Overview
• The Shell Project Guide
• Modeling Shells with TOSCA
• Managing the Shell’s Data Model
• Getting Information from CloudShell
• Commands Visibility and Usability
• Driver Deep Dive
• Auto-discovery for Inventory Shells
• Discovering Inventory using SNMP
• Debugging Shell Driver Commands
• Deploying to Production
• Customizing Shells
• Common Driver Recipes
• Tips and Tricks
• Sharing a Shell with the Community
• 1st Gen Shells
• Orchestration scripts
• Getting Started
• Getting Information from CloudShell
• Script commands Visibility and Usability
• Scripts Deep Dive
• Common Orchestration Script Recipes
• CloudShell's OOB Orchestration
• Configuration management
• Overview
• Custom Scripts
• Adding Your Script to an App
• Tips and Tricks for Custom Scripts
• Ansible
• Ansible Playbook Examples
• Adding the Playbook to an App
• Tips and Tricks for Ansible Playbooks
• Extending cloudshell with cloud providers
• Getting Started with Cloud Providers
• Creating the Cloud Provider Shell
• The Cloud Provider Model
• Extending the Shell's Data Model
• Removing the Address Field
• Configuring Deployment Paths
• Controlling App Deployment Orchestration
• The Cloud Provider Interface
• Resource Discovery
• App Deployment
• Power off and Delete VM
• L2 Network Connectivity
• L3 Network Connectivity
• Cloudshell apis
• Available CloudShell APIs
• Automating CloudShell Sandboxes for DevOps
• Reference
• Python Coding Standards
• Shellfoundry
• Quali’s Shell Framework (Python 2)
• Quali’s Shell Framework (Python 3)
• Converting 1st Gen Shells into 2nd Gen
• Categories in 1st Gen Service Shells
• Mapping Connections using App Sub-resources
• L1 Switch Shells
• Short Development Videos
• Resource Scripts
• Custom Routing for Azure Apps
• Custom Sandbox Metadata
• Shells that Load a Static VM
• Intellisense in Shells and Scripts (using Docstrings)
• AWS Traffic Mirroring
• Common CloudShell Packages
• Migrating Shells to Python 3

This article lists the basic Python packages you would need for shells and scripts. These packages were developed by Quali and are available on public PyPi.

While there are additional packages for specific needs and capabilities, the packages listed below cover most of the required functionality. For additional information, see Quali’s Shell Framework (Python 2) for python 2.7 automation and Quali’s Shell Framework (Python 3) if you’re developing in Python 3.x.

Notes:

• cloudshell-orch-core is the only package you need for orchestration scripts.
• cloudshell-orch-core contains cloudshell-automation-api
• While cloudshell-automation-api includes several methods that apply to shells, it provides unnecessary access to CloudShell administrative areas and is therefore not recommended to be used in shells.