[jerf]

"This is what I want from infrastructure as code and I have yet to see it."

If you sit down with the terraform specifications for an AWS instance, a GCP instance, and an Azure instance, and start trying to write that harmonization, you will rapidly discover why for yourself. Even just trying to specify a network setup and putting an instance on the public internet is impossible to harmonize, without making something so lowest-common-denominator it is almost useless, let alone anything complicated.

[substation13]

Exactly. If you want portability across clouds, Terraform ain't it. The only way I know of to achieve that right now (for any reasonably complex architecture) is:

- Minimal amount of Terraform to deploy Kubernetes (which is different for each cloud provider)

- Helm (or similar) for deploying to Kubernetes

But then you have Kubernets to deal with.

[whoomp12342]

I never said it was easy. I would expect complicated things to suffer, just as bytecode binary is not as efficient as a c++ binary.