&gt; <i>One of the novel things about the platform is that it is hardware agnostic, meaning that it can control physical bare metal machines, virtualized environments, or even public cloud infrastructure</i><p>Cloud Foundry already has this capability (runs on AWS, vSphere, OpenStack, Vagrant(!) and now Azure); Otto is not far behind.<p>Anything you can supply a Garden backend for, Cloud Foundry can use.