On 2021-06-25, at 14:58:34, Randy Bush wrote:
i do not see how one really gets to this place [...] if one buys services above metal as a service (aka MASS).
"Shim the APIs", e.g. Terraform or similar, and use lowest common denominator in terms of refined higher-level services.
and what shim do we use on OVH et alia?
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/ => https://registry.terraform.io/providers/terraform-provider-openstack/opensta...
a side benefit of buying MAAS, is that this brings in emea vendors, not just aws, azure, or goog. There are more cloud APIs than those three in EMEA.
two things
o those three are not based in emea. see others' postings on gdpr and other issues with american providers
o there seem to be extremely few emea based providers above MAAS; which was my point
There are actually many, only a small sample is represented on https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/public-clouds/f/a/Compute%20Service%20... The list of additional providers for terraform is long. /M