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Providers allow Carbon to interact with external applications to retrieve information about your operating environment.
By default, providers will automatically discover configuration profiles to use. You can disable the auto discovery and force enabled specific profiles.
carbon:
providers:
aws:
auto_discover: false
profiles:
default:
enabled: true
The AWS provider uses AWS profiles as Platforms, VPCs as Environments, and EC2 instances as VMs. It will read your AWS config and return all of your profiles as platforms. Carbon does not use the AWS CLI directly, it is recommended to have it setup and configured especially if using SSO. Carbon will treat VPCs as environments.
The Multipass provider is a simple wrapper around the Multipass executable. If Multipass is installed this provider will allow Carbon to interact with them. Since Multipass is on the local machine there is only one Profile returned (local) and one Environment returned (local).
This provider uses the libvirt sdk by digital ocean. Currently, it is hardcoded to use qemu:///system, this should change in the future.
VirtualBox is an easy-to-use virtualization solution. It is also free. It is typically installed on your computer and allows you to create virtual machines for testing. Because of this, certain Carbon features will be static.
This provider is a simple wrapper around vbox-manage. If that is installed, it will allow you to interact with your VMs using Carbon.