[ncc-services-wg] New on RIPE Labs: RIPE NCC and the Cloud - Let’s Start Again

On 26/06/2021 12:14, Martin Millnert wrote:
> 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/openstack/latest/docs
> 
>>>> a side benefit of buying MAAS, is that this brings in emea vendors,
>>>> not just aws, azure, or goog.

It humors me to see companies going for MAAS as well as cloud on-prem 
which is more or less exactly what you have now just someone else owns 
the metal :-)

-Hank