Essentially, a declarative configuration for infra is what you are getting at. You can take this further, using containers and orchestration tech, to abstract your application behind a declarative configuration making it infra agnostic (as it should be iMO). Obviously, not getting locked into any cloud provider services is a pre-requisite for this. Check out such an implementation here[1](full disclosure - I work here))

[1]: https://docs.hasura.io/0.14/ref/project-configuration-and-st...