Hybrid service fleet management for cloud providers

A system, the system comprising:

• a system memory comprised program code;
• a processor configured to execute the program code and perform an operation for managing a cloud computing system comprising:
• receiving a request from an infrastructure management node to modify an infrastructure node in a cloud computing system, wherein the infrastructure node is associated with a first tenant of the cloud computing system;
• generating a fleet request for the infrastructure node executing as a first virtual machine (VM) based on the request to modify the infrastructure node, wherein the first VM and a hypervisor managing the first VM are executing on a host in the cloud computing system;
• and
• injecting the fleet request into the first VM using a VM backchannel through the hypervisor.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed in a computing device, manage a cloud computing system, by performing the steps of:

• receiving a request from an infrastructure management node to modify an infrastructure node in a cloud computing system, wherein the infrastructure node is associated with a first tenant of the cloud computing system;
• generating a fleet request for the infrastructure node executing as a first virtual machine (VM) based on the request to modify the infrastructure node, wherein the first VM and a hypervisor managing the first VM are executing on a host in the cloud computing system;
• and
• injecting the fleet request into the first VM using a VM backchannel through the hypervisor.