Providers Overview

cloudmesh-ai-vm supports a wide array of providers, categorized by their hosting model.

Local Providers

Ideal for rapid development, testing, and offline work.

• Multipass: Canonical's lightweight Ubuntu VM manager.
• WSL2: Windows Subsystem for Linux.
• VirtualBox: Full-featured headless VM management.

OpenStack Providers

Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure often used in research and academic environments.

• Jetstream: High-performance computing (HPC) and cloud environments.
• Chameleon Cloud: Specialized in bare-metal and VM research with advanced reservation capabilities.

Hyperscaler Providers

Global scale cloud services provided via the libcloud abstraction layer.

• AWS EC2: Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
• Azure VMs: Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.
• Google GCE: Google Compute Engine.