Ask HN: Is there any big project trying to make VM APIs standards?

Ask HN: Is there any big project trying to make VM APIs standards?

3 by andrewfromx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I wrote these three files a year ago when I needed to create VMs at various cloud providers (linode, vultr, digitalocean) through their apis: https://ift.tt/VwehQ8C https://ift.tt/uJl3pNO https://ift.tt/LTKrWyE Notice how each is slightly different and they don't all agree on the image name for some standard image and size. I'm wondering fellow hackers, has anyone taken this type of project on and made progress to have a standard way to make a VM? i.e. I should be able to spin up a VM at digitalocean setup just the way I want and then, boom, do the same thing at vultr without any extra work. The end goal being to run my code on these VMs directly, avoiding the extra layer of a container running inside them.



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