You can certainly build platform agnostic applications on top of AWS/Google/etc. but it requires more “work”. Using a platform like OpenShift from Red Hat is one solution.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Töma Gavrichenkov <xima...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Peace, > >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:38 PM William Herrin <b...@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. > > -- > Töma
