Designing Pluggable Infrastructure: Provider Interfaces as the Foundation for VM Orchestration

This article reveals why early architectural decisions matter for infrastructure flexibility. By establishing provider interfaces—narrow abstractions that decouple the control plane from specific backends—the author demonstrates a pattern that enables developers to run locally without infrastructure dependencies while allowing production systems to plug in real implementations. This approach is especially critical for AI workloads, where sandboxed execution and hardware-isolated environments are becoming non-negotiable.