Parler

Sun Jan 10 18:12:41 UTC 2021

On 1/10/21 9:55 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote:
> Peace,
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:38 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>> providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching
>> impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a
>> cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to
>> facilitate cross-platform construction?
> HashiCorp Nomad plus Terraform.  That's pretty much it.
>
> I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at
> the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't
> have automated deployment at all.  While the provisioning tools are
> provider agnostic, a move from a provider to a provider would take
> days at most.
>
At my previous job, I built a tool which could spin up a server farm 
given a platform agnostic design spec from a list of vendors as well as 
pricing it out. It was really more of a prototype since it only 
supported Chef on the spin-up side, but it showed that you could move 
things pretty quickly if need be. I hadn't considered this as a use case 
though.

Mike