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We have been working on multy.dev, an open-source cloud agnostic API that makes it easy to deploy the same infrastructure to any cloud provider using native managed services.

The motivation was the realisation that, even when using Terraform, migrating infrastructure code requires an end-to-end re-write. Even though most core resources are the same in any major cloud, developers need to learn a new provider to deploy the same infrastructure when moving providers.

We are still in early days of development and currently support the core services from AWS and Azure:

- Networking (virtual_network, subnet, route_table, security_group, network_interface, public_ip)

- Compute (virtual_machine, managed kubernetes)

- Database (managed MySQL databases)

- Vault (managed secrets)

- Storage (managed storage)

- Abstraction of cloud differences (Azure VM public vs AWS EC2 private by default)

- Deployment through Terraform

We’re looking for feedback from other developers about our approach. Let us know your thoughts!

GitHub: https://github.com/multycloud/multy

6 comments

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abdouls
This is a really good idea! I've worked with both Azure and AWS - we've mainly used Powershell scripts and both their SDKs to deploy resources.

For AWS we were still using the sdks / cli to deploy but for Azure we went to bicep (Azure's api really sucked as it kept being updated very often and caused the Az module to stop working).

I can see value in this as it grows!

goncaloo
Thank you!

We're focusing on a terraform provider for now but we want to also provide an SDK and a portal in the future.

eurasiantiger
The use of the word ”agnostic” implies skepticism towards cloud solutions and that your stack knows nothing about any cloud provider. I don’t think that’s the way either is.
goncaloo
That's a good point.

Our approach is to embrace cloud native services instead of avoiding them and still not be locked in to a single cloud provider.

We use cloud agnostic to convey that the user can write code that works for any cloud, and we'll translate it to the cloud specific services.

I'll think of different messages - thank you for the feedback!

ifokeev
I'm trying to make this live too here: https://github.com/cloudytool/cloudy. My idea is to give a user cloud-specific javascript templates with a production-ready cluster infrastructure. Looking for contributors :)
goncaloo
Cool project! Why did you choose Pulumi?