Cisco Technology, Inc.

Madhav Madhavshree

Subramanian Chandrasekaran

Jaiganesh Mathaiyan

Senhua Huang

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide for secure access to virtual machines in heterogeneous cloud environments. In an example embodiment, client credentials, such as a public key of a public-private key pair, are provided to a virtual machine in a first cloud, such as a private cloud. The virtual machine can be migrated from the first cloud to a second cloud, such as one of a plurality of heterogeneous public clouds. The virtual machine in the second cloud can be accessed from the first cloud via Secure Shell (SSH) authentication using the client credentials. The client credentials can be updated, and the updated client credentials can be used for subsequent SSH access to the virtual machine in the second cloud.

Secure access to virtual machines in heterogeneous cloud environments

Example embodiments disclosed herein can provide for receiving a compute request for migrating an application from a source environment to a target cloud, determining a configured option of a first resource associated with the application, and determining at least one solution in the target cloud for the application. The solution is based, at least in part, on the configured option. In more specific embodiments, when the configured option indicates the first resource is splittable, a number of second instances of a solution in the target cloud is greater than a number of first instances in the source environment. In further more specific embodiments, when the configured option indicates the first resource is mergeable, a number of second instances of a solution in the target cloud is less than the number of first instances in the source environment.

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