We definitely understand - we plan on tackling this with the release of our Containership Kubernetes Service. Users will be able to enter the credentials to their hosting provider, and CKS will provision a highly-available and secure Kubernetes cluster on the IaaS of their choice.
This is really nice. In our experience, databases are still a huge hurdle for running stateful multicloud deployments. As we try to simplify multicloud container deployment, global replication and multi-region support are going to come in handy. I’m really excited to start dev’ing against this release, and hope to have a containerized version of FaunaDB available via Containership soon. I’d be interested to gauge interest in a containerized FaunaDB among the broader dev community, since to me it seems like a perfect match.
this is definitely a valid concern. decoupling automation from your cloud provider, moving it a layer up the stack, and leveraging only IaaS, can actually be quite helpful in these scenarios. this is an area where having a multicloud strategy, or minimally the ability to move between clouds at will, is essential.