[JCLOUDS-482] Add support for arbitrary CPU and RAM in the ComputeService

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: jclouds-compute
• Labels: gsoc2016
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ignasi Barrera
• Created: 02/Mar/14 23:06
• Updated: 16/Aug/16 01:11
• Resolved: 16/Aug/16 01:11

Description

Some providers such as Abiquo or CloudSigma do not have the concept of Hardware Profiles and allow users to specify arbitrary CPU and RAM values.

The current ComputeService abstraction assumes all providers have Hardware Profiles, and forces implementations of such providers to provide a fixed (hardcoded) list just to conform the interface.

It would be great to modernize the Compute workflow so Hardware Profiles are not mandatory and users can manually set their values when needed.