Now that we are running production workloads in packet.net, we need to stand up a real provider so we're only paying for useful capacity. Based on the series of bugs filed for the GCP provider, the packet.net will require the following methods: * request an instance (bug 1487694) * terminate an instance (bug 1487695) * suggest bids (bug 1487696) * accept bids (bug 1487697) * derive credentials (bug 1487698) * list instance status (bug 1487699) The bidding portion can likely be pretty naive at this point until we have more experience with packet.net pricing. Wander: I suspect you can make some progress here even in the absence of the dependent bugs being fixed. Playing with the packet.net API would be a good first step.