Orchestrating hybrid cloud services

An article comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to store instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to:

• provide a hybrid cloud service interface to manage a plurality of cloud services provided by a plurality of cloud resources that form a hybrid cloud;
• provide at least one overarching application programming interface within the hybrid cloud service interface, the overarching application programming interface being a superset of coarse grain cloud application programming interfaces of the hybrid cloud service interface, each of the cloud application programming interfaces corresponding to a cloud resource of the plurality of cloud resources, and each of the cloud application programming interfaces forming an interface to at least one application programming interface of a corresponding cloud resource;
• orchestrate the cloud services by execution of the cloud application programming interfaces in the superset contained by the overarching application programming interface to perform at least one cloud resource management function provided by the hybrid cloud service interface to be performed across at least two of the plurality of cloud resources;
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• provide a cloud application programming interface in the overarching application programming interface for at least one function shared in common among the plurality of cloud resources.

A system comprising:

• a plurality of cloud containers, each of the cloud containers being associated with a cloud resource of a plurality of cloud resources forming a hybrid cloud and being associated with cloud services available for an associated cloud resource;
• and
• a processor to provide a hybrid cloud service interface that
• contains an overarching application programming interface that is a superset of coarse grain cloud application programming interfaces of the hybrid cloud service interface, each of the cloud application programming interfaces to communicate with a corresponding cloud container of the plurality of cloud containers, and each of the cloud application programming interfaces forming an interface to at least one application programming interface of the corresponding cloud container, and
• orchestrates the cloud services by execution of the cloud application programming interfaces in the superset to perform at least one cloud resource management function provided by the hybrid cloud service interface across at least two of the plurality of cloud resources that form the hybrid cloud;
• wherein the overarching application programming interface is to orchestrate cloud services that are shared in common among the cloud containers.