Regarding #3, I'm working on a project [0][1] that might be able to achieve that. It's not a direct goal of the project, but could be a subset of the primary go

Regarding #3, I'm working on a project [0][1] that might be able to achieve that. It's not a direct goal of the project, but could be a subset of the primary goal. The primary goal is to be able to take a system description and be able to run it anywhere, be it public clouds or private hardware. The base image is CoreOS (so, not a uni-kernel, but still pretty sweet). You can search Docker Hub for containers and create multi-datacenter, (and soon) multi-provider clouds. I do think uni-kernels may be the way to go, but AFAICT the proper tooling just doesn't exist yet. It's still in pre-alpha, so there are many amenities that I plan to add that don't exist yet, but it will launch clouds (what I'm calling a set of related CoreOS clusters), create fleet units, and start your applications. If anyone's interested in helping work on it, let me know or send a PR. All the code is free (MIT) and on github (link on top-right of site). [0] http://www.cloud-launcher.io http://www.cloud-launcher.io [1] http://www.cloud-launcher.io?simulator http://www.cloud-launcher.io?simulator | Just a simulation; won't create machines; any credentials will be valid