Hypervisor host deployment in a cloud

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to be executed in a computing device to cause the computing device to carry out a method of deploying a hypervisor to a host in a public cloud, comprising:

• obtaining, by a deployment service, a prototype hypervisor image from shared storage, the prototype hypervisor image being for a bare-metal hypervisor to be executed directly on a hardware platform of the host for execution of virtual machines (VMs) on the bare-metal hypervisor;
• obtaining, by the deployment service, configuration information for devices of the hardware platform of the host and a physical network of the public cloud to which the host is attached;
• customizing, by the deployment service, the prototype hypervisor image in response to the configuration information to generate a customized hypervisor image, the customized hypervisor image comprising a modification of the bare-metal hypervisor based on the configuration information, the modification including at least one software installation bundle (SIB) corresponding to the hardware platform of the host and configuration of the physical network of the public cloud to which the host is attached;
• storing, by the deployment service, the customized hypervisor image in the shared storage in a manner accessible by the public cloud;
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• invoking a deployment application programming interface (API) of the public cloud to retrieve and install the customized hypervisor image to the host.

A computing system, comprising:

• a public cloud in communication with a data center through a wide area network (WAN);
• a deployment service, executing in the data center, configured to:
• obtain a prototype hypervisor image from shared storage in the data center, the prototype hypervisor image being for a bare-metal hypervisor to be executed directly on a hardware platform of the host for execution of virtual machines (VMs) on the bare-metal hypervisor;
• obtain configuration information for devices of the hardware platform of a host and a physical network of the public cloud to which the host is attached;
• customize the prototype hypervisor image in response to the configuration information to generate a customized hypervisor image, the customized hypervisor image comprising a modification of the bare-metal hypervisor based on the configuration information, the modification including at least one software installation bundle (SIB) corresponding to the hardware platform of the host and configuration of the physical network of the public cloud to which the host is attached;
• store the customized hypervisor image in the shared storage in a manner accessible by the public cloud;
• wherein a deployment application programming interface (API) is configured to retrieve and install the customized hypervisor image to a host in the public cloud.