Fast provisioning service for cloud computing

A method for creating an infrastructure-as-a-service virtual computing platform, comprising:

• displaying a prompt including a first list of a plurality of environments for a virtual machine;
• receiving an input from the first list for one of the plurality of environments;
• displaying a prompt from a second list including at least one machine role associated with the one of plurality of environments for a virtual machine;
• receiving an input from the second list for the at least one machine role, the first list and the second list being independent of one another;
• presenting at least one chef role from a repository of chef roles for a virtual machine, the at least one chef role based on the input for the one of the plurality of environments, and the input for the one chef role;
• receiving a chef role input;
• and
• deploying a virtual machine for the infrastructure-as-a-service platform in response to the chef role input, the chef role including the machine role instructions for creating the virtual computing platform.

A fast provisioning system for creating an infrastructure-as-a-service virtual computing platform, comprising:

• a computing machine further comprising:
• a processor;
• a memory associated with the processor;
• a display having a graphical user interface, the display communicatively coupled to the processor and memory;
• and
• a resource creation module including instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the computing machine to create a virtual machine for an infrastructure-as-a-service computing platform, the instructions and processor:
• displaying a prompt including a plurality of environments for a virtual machine;
• receiving an input for one of the plurality of environments;
• displaying a prompt including at least one machine role associated with the one of the plurality of environments for a virtual machine;
• receiving an input for the at least one machine role associated with the one of the plurality of environments for a virtual machine, the machine role indicating the type of resource to be deployed;
• presenting at least one chef role from a repository of chef roles for a virtual machine, the at least one chef role based on the input for the one of the plurality of environments, and the input for at least one machine role associated with the one of the plurality of environments for the virtual machine;
• and
• receiving a chef role input and deploying a virtual machine for the infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the chef role including the machine role instructions for creating the virtual computing platform.