> That has to start with some big company developing an abstraction layer and open sourcing it, and then we can go from there. I work for a company (Pivotal) t

> That has to start with some big company developing an abstraction layer and open sourcing it, and then we can go from there. I work for a company (Pivotal) that's had such a product -- Pivotal Cloud Foundry -- for several years. It creates an abstraction layer for apps or container images, your choice. Deploy with BOSH to raw metal, OpenStack, vSphere, AWS, Azure or GCP. BOSH creates an abstraction layer over the IaaS. We're also the main driving force behind Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Services; the latter is in part a generalisation and integration of Netflix OSS. We cooperate a lot with Google and Microsoft. For example: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/cloud-foundry-on-gcp https://cloud.google.com/solutions/cloud-foundry-on-gcp