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Ask HN: Is Kubernetes the only alternative for being cloud agnostic?

My company's management desires for us to be "cloud agnostic" - without having a firm definition of what that actually means. Lots of people in my company think "cloud agnostic" means you "containerize" your solutions and run them on Kubernetes. Then you can pick and move your application from cloud to cloud as desired. That seems extremely limited to me. To me that thinking exemplifies the cloud as being "someone else's computer" rather than seeing the cloud as an application platform in and of itself.

What does HN think about this? Is there a way of looking at "cloud agnostic" that still allows you to look at the cloud as an application platform and not just as a platform for running Kubernetes? Is there another way to think about this?

37 points taylodl 4 years ago 37 comments

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