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@guizzy I'm doing the same: learning cloudy stuff (AWS, Azure, thinking about Google Cloud) because I don't want to restrict my options.
Too bad I didn't spend more time on AWS when @musicman was starting to learn it and offered me an account in his auth group.
(I suspect it was partly due to one of those "work 12-16 hour days" assignments; added to "log in from hotel Wi-Fi", it usually means the end of anything you're working on.)
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I was indirectly answering your question, but let me be direct: learn cloudy stuff. Even if you stay where you are now, at some point, management will say "what if we moved some of our stuff to the cloud?" and you want to be the one that says "I've been running cloud instances for years so that I'd be ready when you are."
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@guizzy A retro-gaming site! 16-bit Quebecois!
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@guizzy When I first looked at Azure, it seemed like even the simplest site needed multiple moving parts. I think I was just used to having all the pieces in a single VPS server instead of starting from the beginning with a database instance, a web instance, a compute instance, and so on.
That's why I decided to start out with a couple of courses, then move on to building a couple of projects on my own.
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Perhaps you would be better served learning K8s as all the major cloud providers have that
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let me know if you want to talk about #K8s distros or have questions. It is a huge part of our 2021 plan, and this #openshift ticket I have now has shown me I need to spend a lot of time on it. I work better when I have something specific to test or figure out, so you're really doing me a favor.
We use #AWS and #ovirt for our...I'll call them provisioners. I much prefer ovirt, but we don't manage our puny DC and our IT team barely does, so for anything we want to approximate HA, we have to put it in AWS.
I know that you lose some features, but if I thought I might be using multiple clouds, I would look for a layer that sits in front of them, K8s or not.
our ovirt and AWS systems sit in different subnets (I'm not a networking person, maybe the wrong word...they can't talk to each other) which means I don't know how much I would gain by putting a layer between the two. Plus, I don't use the command line for either. I should probably learn that though, as I would be quicker.
I am learning a bit about using #Terraform with ovirt. Perhaps Terraform is the answer here for me.