Yeah. I’m following this discussion and not really finding myself able to relate very well.
We’re using IAC almost exclusively; loads of Ansible particularly. Everything is essentially a Kubernetes manifest or a playbook in Ansible (which runs on Kubernetes). We exited the “all in on one cloud and all its services” methodology and it made our lives _vastly_ less complex. We don’t really need the kinds of complexity that brings. We picked two tools as close to the metal as was reasonably portable between any given VM or bare metal stack, and deploy everything else on top of that. It has made life _so_ much easier.
Of course we still use some best in class services, but we avoid proprietary services that cannot be at least functionally replaced inside a week, unless we’re hosting them ourselves.
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Yeah. I’m following this discussion and not really finding myself able to relate very well.
We’re using IAC almost exclusively; loads of Ansible particularly. Everything is essentially a Kubernetes manifest or a playbook in Ansible (which runs on Kubernetes). We exited the “all in on one cloud and all its services” methodology and it made our lives _vastly_ less complex. We don’t really need the kinds of complexity that brings. We picked two tools as close to the metal as was reasonably portable between any given VM or bare metal stack, and deploy everything else on top of that. It has made life _so_ much easier.
Of course we still use some best in class services, but we avoid proprietary services that cannot be at least functionally replaced inside a week, unless we’re hosting them ourselves.