Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS

Re:Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS by mrweasel on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:37AM (#23962485)

I was so disappointed when I learned that I'd been duped in regards to Terraforms abilities. My colleagues had explained that Terraform would allow us to avoid being locked in to own cloud provider, because it's "cloud agnostic" so we could easily move to between Azure, GCP and AWS.

Imagine my disappointment when I learned that no actually, Terraform will need to know which type of EC2 instance you want, you need to configure an AWS load balancer, not just "a load balancer".

Terraform does NOTHING to help you move between cloud platforms aside from providing a language that will work across providers. You still need to understand how everything ties together and is configured in each platform, now you just can use the examples in the documentation or the newest features.

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Re:Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS by jareware on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:37AM (#23962705)

Either your colleagues were very misinformed, or this was a slight misunderstanding on your part: Terraform IS cloud agnostic, but not in the way you understood.

Instead, it allows you to use the same tool and management model for resources on any of the 3 big cloud providers, about a 100 assorted SaaS providers, and most importantly, wire them together (e.g. create a Mailgun configuration, and set up its verification DNS records on AWS), all in code, and in the same workflow.

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Re:Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS by scarface74 on Monday July 27, 2020 @09:16PM (#23971279)

I had a (friendly) back and forth with someone from Hashicorp on HN a while back. They are careful not to call Terraform “cloud agnostic” for that reason.

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