DOC: Supported Clouds

Cloud	Identifier	Access Method	Additional Capabilities	Authors
Parallel Libvirt Manager1 -------------Actively maintaned	plm	Native python client (libvirt)	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume Configuration via cloud-init	Marcio Silva Michael Hines
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud2 -------------Actively maintaned	ec2	Native python client (boto)	VM suspend/resume VM capture VV creation/attachment Configuration via cloud-init	Marcio Silva Michael Hines
OpenStack3 -------------Actively maintaned	osk	Native python client (novaclient)	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume VM capture VV creation/attachment Automatically create "jump host" VM Configuration via cloud-init	Marcio Silva
DigitalOcean4 -------------Actively maintaned	do	libcloud	VV creation/attachment Automatically create "jump host" VM Configuration via cloud-init	Michael R. Hines (mrhines@digitalocean.com)
VMware vCloud Director4 -------------Not maintaned	vcd	3rd-party python client (libcloud)	VM suspend/resume VM capture	Daniel Bowers
CloudStack5 -------------Not maintaned	csk	Native python client (cloudstack-python-client)	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume VM capture	YongHun Jeon JaeHoon Jung
SoftLayer6 -------------Actively maintaned	slr	Native python client (softlayer-python)	VM suspend/resume VM capture Configuration via cloud-init	Marcio Silva
Google Compute Engine7 -------------Actively maintaned	gce	Native python client (google-api-python)	VM suspend/resume VV creation/attachment Configuration via cloud-init	Marcio Silva
Docker/Swarm8 -------------Actively maintaned	pdm	Native python client (docker-py)	VM suspend/resume VV creation/attachment	Marcio Silva
LXD9 -------------Actively maintaned	pcm	Native python client (pylxd)	VM suspend/resume VM capture Configuration via cloud-init	Marcio Silva
Kubernetes10 -------------Actively maintaned	kub	Native python client (pykube)	Kubernetes Pods, ReplicaSets or Deployments Kubernetes Services (to allow connection back into Instances)	Marcio Silva
Simulated Cloud11 -------------Actively maintaned	sim	None	Place VMs on individual Hosts VM suspend/resume VM capture VV creation/attachment	Marcio Silva
NO Operation Cloud12 -------------Actively maintaned	nop	None	VMs (or Hosts) have to be pre-deployed	Marcio Silva
Azure Service Management13 -------------Actively maintaned	as	libcloud		Marcio Silva

Comments:

1. Requires preparation of the environment (Hosts with KVM) before it can be used. VM images will have to be manually copied to each Host before starting.
2. None.
3. OpenStack Folsom or newer.
4. None.
5. None.
6. None.
7. None.
8. None.
9. None.
10. None
11. Simulated cloud just creates concrete objects (e.g., Hosts and VMs) and abstract objects (e.g., Virtual Applications) on the Object Store only. Since the each operation takes only 1 second, it is a good way to test your experiment plan before running it on an actual cloud. In addition to that, this "cloud" is heavily used for debugging/development.
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