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by atom_arranger 1867 days ago
Infrastructure as code.

One way to do it is you have semi-imperative code that runs, the output of the code is a description of the system to be deployed. Then you have some kind of diffing system that figures out how to take your existing cloud deployment and turn it into the new version described by the output of your code.

This is how Pulumi works for example.
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kall 1867 days ago
Something I am waiting for is a cloud platform that competes with AWS/GCP/Azure where IaC is the only way to access it.

No dashboard where you can muck about, no shared account that mixes together resources from all your environments, no messy state managment errors because you are always working with the same state: the truth of what is running right now.

The console would only be for monitoring, observability and maybe some disaster recovery actions.

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TurningCanadian 1867 days ago
It sounds like you're describing Kubernetes. It already does container and volume management that way. All that's left is to continue building on top of it so that it can provision managed services like storage buckets and databases.
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atom_arranger 1866 days ago
You can manage Kubernetes with infrastructure as code.

The idea of infrastructure as code in relation to Kubernetes is that you have the full power of a programming language to build with, not just yaml files. You can also tie into other functionality of cloud providers as long as your IAC provider supports it. So you could have your Kubernetes cluster connect to some serverless code, or to a managed database, all deployed from one codebase.

Having said all this I didn’t actually have a great experience using Pulumi and switched to plain K8s. It makes a ton of sense in theory though and I’ll probably try again.

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