I never understood why people didn't do this before -- I've wanted great application-accessible APIs to PXE and autoconfiguration for a while.
Even better if it's standardized across competing hosting providers, or at least multiple physical locations.
OpenStack can do this -- makes a lot of sense.
I personally like provisioning hardware with a hardware-virtualized hypervisor anyway, and running admin/keys/monitoring in another VM or the dom0 while running the application in a domU, but I hate multi-tenancy, especially across organizations, but often even across functions on the same server from the same organization.
Pretty excited by this; would love to set it up in a colo cage.
Even better if it's standardized across competing hosting providers, or at least multiple physical locations.
OpenStack can do this -- makes a lot of sense.
I personally like provisioning hardware with a hardware-virtualized hypervisor anyway, and running admin/keys/monitoring in another VM or the dom0 while running the application in a domU, but I hate multi-tenancy, especially across organizations, but often even across functions on the same server from the same organization.
Pretty excited by this; would love to set it up in a colo cage.