Cross-cloud policy management for hybrid cloud deployments

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

• receiving a request to migrate a virtual machine from a private data center managed by a first organization to a public cloud computing system, wherein the first organization is a tenant in the public cloud computing system managed by a second organization;
• determining configurations of physical infrastructure of the private data center that underlies the virtual machine;
• determining a match preference associated with each of the configurations, wherein the match preferences indicate a level of criticality for some corresponding configuration at the public cloud system;
• and
• transmitting, to the public cloud computing system, a migration package associated with the virtual machine and specifying the determined configurations and corresponding match preferences.

A method for managing a hybrid cloud computing system, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a public cloud computing system, a migration package associated with a first virtual machine at a private data center managed by a first organization, wherein the first organization is a tenant in the public cloud computing system managed by a second organization;
• retrieving a plurality of configurations and corresponding match preferences from the migration package, wherein the match preferences indicate a level of criticality for some corresponding configuration at the public cloud system;
• and
• responsive to determining availability for the plurality of configurations at the public cloud computing system based on the corresponding, match preferences, instantiating a second virtual machine based on the migration package.