Vendor lock-in in infrastructure: Are you running all your servers in AWS?
Vendor lock-in in software: Are you using opinionated Frameworks that require the use of plugins to extend? Are you utilizing services from AWS that have no alternatives? Are you relying too much on 3rd party libraries for simple things?
To prevent that an out of the box approach is needed and first become with a good design. For example when you start with terraform you should logically separate the modules that are tied for each infrastructure provider, aws, gcloud or azure so that in case you want to change infrastructure you can import different modules in the live server deployment modules.
Ideally, the live server environments should not have internal knowledge of AWS or Gcloud but see them as black boxes.
Very much agreed. One of the best practices with IaC is the decoupling of the hardware running an application and the application services itself. If you have resources available I could use to help exemplify this decoupling I would love to share them.
On the point of frameworks, they are all opinionated. Using services with no alternatives; I agree. The business would have to make the decision between 'do we use the new hotness with no alternative' or 'do we hold off till we have choices to fall back to'. Either way, the conversation has to be started.
What do you think? Would you use a service that has not alternatives?
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Preventing vendor lock-in comes in two places:
To prevent that an out of the box approach is needed and first become with a good design. For example when you start with terraform you should logically separate the modules that are tied for each infrastructure provider, aws, gcloud or azure so that in case you want to change infrastructure you can import different modules in the live server deployment modules.
Ideally, the live server environments should not have internal knowledge of AWS or Gcloud but see them as black boxes.
Very much agreed. One of the best practices with IaC is the decoupling of the hardware running an application and the application services itself. If you have resources available I could use to help exemplify this decoupling I would love to share them.
On the point of frameworks, they are all opinionated. Using services with no alternatives; I agree. The business would have to make the decision between 'do we use the new hotness with no alternative' or 'do we hold off till we have choices to fall back to'. Either way, the conversation has to be started.
What do you think? Would you use a service that has not alternatives?