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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Because I intentionally design systems to avoid vendor lock-in by, at the very least, including a plan to export data and keep IaC in a repo so that it can be used to redeploy at either another vendor or colo-based servers.

Here's some good tools to do so:

  • Foreman Self-managed Metal-as-a-Service/VM-as-a-Service orchestrator. It's FOSS.
  • Terraform Formerly FOSS, now moving to BSL due to service providers taking advantage of them. IaC tooling that allows one to rapidly deploy and manage infra on multiple platforms.
  • Keycloak FOSS IAM platform that's pretty straightforward to use.
  • Talos Many choices here but I've used Talos before. It's a FOSS K8S-specific Linux distro that is designed to be platform agnostic and auto-deployed with a simple config.
  • Helm K8S deployment manager. Need a DB? You can probably find a chart.

There's a ton of other possibilities but FOSS and source-availabile licensed software makes it pretty straightforward (though still time-consuming as no infra is fully cloud agnostic due to non-standardization between the big three in infra primitives).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That wasn't in the initial reqs. And, supposing the hardware was good to go, about the same as AWS.

ETA: The time/click savings is more likely to be in maintenance because using a cloud service is just paying someone else to do that for you.