# For cloud providers

CloudRING is being built for providers who want to run their own cloud on their own hardware without writing a control plane from scratch.

## What it's meant to give you

> Sources: the [README](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/blob/main/README.md#the-ecosystem-model), "The ecosystem model", and [GOVERNANCE.md](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md#service-and-provider-autonomy), "Service and provider autonomy".

- A reusable platform: identity, tenancy, IAM, orders, quota, metering, and one API, CLI and portal.
- A way to offer your own services next to the ones from the project and from independent teams, all through OCSv3.
- Control over your deployment. You decide which modules to admit, and your commercial terms, capacity, customer commitments and legal compliance stay yours.
- Later on, opt-in federation with other providers that never hands over root authority.

## How far along it is

> Sources: [CURRENT_STATE.md](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/blob/main/roadmap/CURRENT_STATE.md), [roadmap.yaml](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/blob/main/roadmap/roadmap.yaml) and the notes of release [v0.1.0-c02.1](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/releases/tag/v0.1.0-c02.1).

The latest prerelease includes a development installer built to bring up one empty provider in a single VM, and its live acceptance checks haven't passed yet. The repository also has site inventory and installation contracts, but open issues block a supported independent installation. The first production-grade goal, a highly available installation of an empty provider, is roadmap goal G02. CloudRING isn't ready to serve real customers.

## One-engineer operations (G22)

> Source: [roadmap goal G22](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/blob/main/roadmap/goals/G22-one-engineer-operations-and-autonomous-recovery.md).

Roadmap goal G22 aims to show that one trained engineer can run the whole platform in normal conditions. The plan: one operator console and CLI for the whole platform, guided and reversible repair, and a measured workload budget that has to hold over a 14-day campaign with an independent walkthrough.

## Get involved

If you run infrastructure and want to shape how CloudRING installs, operates and connects to a provider's hardware, [open an issue](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/issues). The [provider adapter model](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/blob/main/docs/provider-adapters.md) and the [site installation contract](https://github.com/opencloudtech/CloudRING/blob/main/docs/provider-site-installation.md) are good places to start reading.