This is the high level tracking ticket used to track the implementation of usable disposable clients for Taskotron tasks. The high level design [[planning/disposable_clients_high_level_design|can be found in the wiki]].

The current plan is to start with something that does not involve a full cloud system and starts VMs locally to the clients. We may migrate to a full cloud system at a later point in time.

=== Main Components for Disposable Clients
VM Management (startup, shutdown, setting specs of VMs)
Image Handling (downloading new images for clients or for tasks, getting images accessible to the cloud interface)
Formula syntax/content changes
handling remote execution of tasks once VMs are spawned (copying files to, retrieving files from task executor VMs, handling task execution etc.)
* various sysadmin-ish tasks (setting up any new services, migrating buildslaves to bare metal, redeploying any needed bits etc.)

These areas will be covered in subtasks for this parent tracking task and should be considered a more comprehensive list than what is in the description here.

This ticket will be closed once all child tickets have been completed and closed.