| CPC G06F 9/5077 (2013.01) [H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a platform interface of an infrastructure as code (IaC) platform a request for a custom virtual resource, wherein the request for the custom virtual resource includes parameters that define the custom virtual resource;
determining, based on the parameters, a resource requirement plan;
sending, via an application programing interface (API) call, details of the resource requirement plan to an API module of the IaC platform;
checking, by the API module, an inventory of base virtual resources provisioned at a datacenter;
identifying, as a result of the checking, a base virtual resource associated with the request for the custom virtual resource;
sending, by the API module and to an orchestration platform, a request to modify the associated base virtual resource based on the resource requirement plan;
sending, by the API module and to the orchestration platform, a request to associate the modified base virtual resource with an application; and
providing the modified base virtual resource to a user for use with the application.
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