provider

type CloudProvider interface {
	config.Configurable

	// Connects to the cloud provider using the
	// configured credentials
	Connect() error

	// The currently configured region for this provider
	Region() *string

	// List of regions for the client. If the provider
	// instances is not configured then a static list
	// is returned. Otherwise the list retrieved from
	// the cloud API is returned.
	GetRegions() []RegionInfo

	// Returns the provider's compute entity
	GetCompute() (cloud.Compute, error)

	// Returns the provider's storage entity
	GetStorage() (cloud.Storage, error)

	// adds the provider configuration variables
	// to the given variable map
	GetVars(vars map[string]string) error
}

type RegionInfo struct {
	Name        string
	Description string
}