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Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud by olefoo on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:34AM (#17434408)
> There's a degree of complexity that comes with multi-cloud that's ill-suited for most early stage companies. Especially in the age of "serverless" that has folks thinking they don't need people to worry about infrastructure.

I just heard a dozen founders sit up and think "Market Opportunity" in glowing letters.

CockroachDB has a strong offering.

But multi-cloud need not be complicated in implementation.

A few ansible scripts and some fancy footwork with static filesystem synchronization and you too can be moving services from place to place with a clear chain of data custody.

Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud by halbritt on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:50PM (#17439233)
A few ansible scripts? Nah.

Everything I have runs in kubernetes. The only difficulty I have to deal with is figuring out how to deploy a kubernetes cluster in each provider.

From there, I write a single piece of orchestration that will drop my app stack in any cloud provider. I'm using a custom piece of software and event-driving automation to handle the creation and migration of services.

Migrating data across providers is hard as kubernetes doesn't have snapshots yet.

There are already a lot of startups in this space doing exactly the kind of thing that I just described. Most aim to provide a CD platform for k8s.