Extensible Resource Management for Hybrid Cloud-Based Media Production

A method for use by an extensible resource manager (ERM) of a hybrid cloud-based media production system, the ERM including a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a resource management software code, the method comprising:

• communicating, by the resource management software code executed by the hardware processor, with a network orchestrator of the hybrid cloud-based media production system to identify at least one multicast production media flow for processing in a cloud-based virtual production environment;
• identifying, by the resource management software code executed by the hardware processor, at least one cloud-based resource for processing one or more cloud production media flows in the cloud-based virtual production environment, the one or more cloud production media flows corresponding to the identified at least one multicast production media flow;
• determining, by the resource management software code executed by the hardware processor, whether a license exists for the identified at least one cloud-based resource;
• obtaining, by the resource management software code executed by the hardware processor, the license when the does not exist;
• and
• provisioning, after obtaining the license or in response to determining that the license exists, by the resource management software code executed by the hardware processor, the cloud-based virtual production environment with the identified at least one cloud-based resource.