Desired state management of hosts and clusters in a hybrid cloud

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that are executable in a host computer, wherein the instructions when executed cause the host computer to carry out a method of managing desired states for host computers and for clusters of host computers of software-defined data centers (SDDCs), the method comprising:

• creating a first desired state file for a first cluster of the clusters and creating a second desired state file for a second cluster of the clusters, and storing the first and second desired state files together, wherein the first and second clusters are in a first SDDC of the SDDCs, and wherein the second desired state file includes desired configurations that are absent from the first desired state file;
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• transmitting a first instruction to update actual configurations of the first cluster to match corresponding desired configurations from the first desired state file and transmitting a second instruction to update actual configurations of the second cluster to match corresponding desired configurations from the second desired state file.

A host computer including a configuration service configured to execute on a processor of a hardware platform of the host computer to manage desired states for host computers and for clusters of host computers of software-defined data centers (SDDCs) by performing the following steps:

• creating a first desired state file for a first cluster of the clusters and creating a second desired state file for a second cluster of the clusters, and storing the first and second desired state files together, wherein the first and second clusters are in a first SDDC of the SDDCs, and wherein the second desired state file includes desired configurations that are absent from the first desired state file;
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• transmitting a first instruction to update actual configurations of the first cluster to match corresponding desired configurations from the first desired state file and transmitting a second instruction to update actual configurations of the second cluster to match corresponding desired configurations from the second desired state file.