Introducing the External deployment or provisioning integration

[harikrishna-patnala]

Description

Apache CloudStack already supports a wide range of hypervisors, including KVM, VMware, and Xen, to provision and manage instances. We are now introducing a new feature or framework that allows seamless integration of "external" provisioning systems into CloudStack. For example, this enables the integration of any baremetal provisioning system, platforms like Proxmox, or even the addition of new hypervisor support through the use of simple scripts.

A design document is made with more details at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/External+Deployment+Integration+in+CloudStack

Types of changes

• [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• [ ] Enhancement (improves an existing feature and functionality)
• [ ] Cleanup (Code refactoring and cleanup, that may add test cases)
• [ ] build/CI
• [ ] test (unit or integration test code)

Feature/Enhancement Scale or Bug Severity

Feature/Enhancement Scale

• [x] Major
• [ ] Minor