you won't have to deal with yaml for these clusters
let me draw this out the way i've been playing with:
a classic vm exists, and supports kvm — this means you can run stuff like firecracker in there
an ssh server runs on this vm, and when you connect to it, you're dropped into a repl/tui where you can list existing microvms, create new ones, or destroy existing ones, and, of particular use, you can attach to one.
as an added nicety, if you connect with `ssh [email protected]`, your connection skips the management interface and you are dropped into the `dev` machine — if it didn't yet exist, you wait 3s, and now it does
vms can talk to each other internally, can connect out, and persist if the server needs a restart
what i don't have yet is proper multi-tenancy, it treats each ssh key as an account, which is fine since it's just me; incoming connections is not figured out, internal supervisor to keep services running inside each microvm, isolation inside firecracker, snapshoting or backups, and the whole shopping list that would make it an actual mvp
Sounds like a nice setup. The way exe.dev does things seems somewhat similar.