> organization moves from deploying on AWS to deploying in a Kubernetes cluster
I had (and still have) high hopes for circleci's orbs to help with this use case. Unfortunately, orbs are private - which makes it a no-go for us.
But, in my dream world, we have bits of the deployed configuration that can be imported from else where - and this is built right into the CI system.
In practice, for my org, the code and configuration for the CI comes from both the "infra" repo as well as the "application" repo. The configuration itself is stored in the app repo, but then there's a call `python deploy_to_kubernetes.py <args>`. The `deploy_to_xxx.py` script would be in the "infra" repo.
It also depends on your workflow - do you change the common deploy infrastructure more often, or do you change the application specific deploy infra more often.
Yeah, writing code to deploy code is sometimes fun, but sometimes nasty.
My experience is that you are going to be "locked in" in some way no matter what. Current infrastructure systems are a mess of vendor specific solutions and configurations. Migrating from one open source system to another is going to be just as hard as migrating from a proprietary thing like vanilla ECS to say kubernetes on bare metal.
There are other concerns like vendor pricing and stuff, but I have not had bad luck with that.
I had (and still have) high hopes for circleci's orbs to help with this use case. Unfortunately, orbs are private - which makes it a no-go for us.
But, in my dream world, we have bits of the deployed configuration that can be imported from else where - and this is built right into the CI system.
In practice, for my org, the code and configuration for the CI comes from both the "infra" repo as well as the "application" repo. The configuration itself is stored in the app repo, but then there's a call `python deploy_to_kubernetes.py <args>`. The `deploy_to_xxx.py` script would be in the "infra" repo.
It also depends on your workflow - do you change the common deploy infrastructure more often, or do you change the application specific deploy infra more often.
Yeah, writing code to deploy code is sometimes fun, but sometimes nasty.