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As the functional map shows, Abiquo adds a thin unintrusive management layer to the existing cloud infrastructure and providers. There is no impact on any VMs that are already running. The Cloud Admins can add the physical and virtual infrastructure to Abiquo in a controlled way on their own timescales.
Abiquo does more than just cloud provisioning!
In addition to the basic concepts, the following diagram shows some of the specialized feature sets that Abiquo can provide as part of a cloud service! For example, with Abiquo you can:
- Manage costs with budgets, pricing estimates, dashboards displaying usage and bills, and allocation limits. Synchronize price books from Amazon and Azure
- Automatically scale out or in to adjust your workloads (and cloud bills) to your application requirements on any cloud
- Manage automation on any cloud, using guest tools or the cloud-init standard
- Automate your infrastructure using Ansible and Puppet and using Abiquo integrations with Terraform and Chef, or using standard tools such as Ansible and Puppet
- Create your own integrations using the complete RESTful Abiquo REST API, with Java and Python libraries. Use the Java stream client to follow activity on the platform
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