Ask HN: Self-hosted alternate to GCP/AWS?
Are there Open Source tooling for running your own network with automatic provisioning benefits of the giant clouds?<p>I would love to be able to plug&#x27;n&#x27;plug my spare (and distributed) linux machines into a company cloud and have them be available for ready provisioning&#x2F;unprovisioning automatically (including e.g. auto detection of RAM, SSD, GPUs). Lets say I have about $8k worth of used but decent devices with enough specs for many of our companies current usage of VMs, and might be able to reduce our cloud bill by $5k to $electricity+extra work cost a month. I listened to the DHH &quot;Leaving the Cloud&quot; podcast and it&#x27;s inspired me. Realistically we probably won&#x27;t do databases since the value of the cloud is a bit higher there than for webservers. We don&#x27;t have spikes in demand that cloud would help with either.<p>I had a look at OpenStack but they don&#x27;t seem to support this - surely big companies find a benefit in this for some data privacy focused applications - are there any good tools?<p>In a dream there is a command line to join the network like<p>selfhostedcloudprovisioner --key=&#x27;mypem.key&#x27;<p>and I could just start using the machine to launch a virtual machine (not just SSH tunneling) from another machine and network with it, to run a webserver, database, join kuberenetes pod, whatever.