Going about building cloud available render farm

What with the flurry of interest lately in Google Apps for M&E workloads, I am trying to move our CentOS farm to an infrastructure that allows the "cloud burst" capability without the "Sorry, honey. Maybe see you in a week."

I have built the Katello piece and it's required Smart Proxies so a foundation is there.

I was going to use the RedHat Cloudforms model and try to build this out of upstream projects but apparently, neither Google nor RedHat have any existing pre-baked hooks even in their Enterprise offerings.

Everything is staying CentOS but I want to build something that doesn't take a lot of time to manage or require different tools for cloud vs on-prem provisioning. I'm only one in IT at our office so i'm prepared to put work at the beginning to make future tasks as auto-magic as possible.

Has anyone out there built a "cloud capable" provisioning system under one large umbrella? For RHEL/CentOS? Anyone aware of professionals in the NW that have projects like this under their belt

I do realize this is amazing broad but the lack of documentation in the projects is hindering progress and eating up time in my workload to deal with the rest of the tasks a Studio IT does ;)

Thanks

Scott A

EmbassyVFX