Most teams silo separate workloads on separate providers with unique toolchains. Moving anything between them means starting from scratch. That is not portability. That is just redundancy with extra operational weight.
True portability means your application configuration travels with your code. Here is how to achieve it:
- Write infrastructure configuration in version controlled files that travel with your code.
- Describe what your application needs rather than provider specific commands.
- Handle provider and region selection at the platform level.
- Store data in formats that can be migrated without a bespoke project.
This separates the where from the how. Engineers only need to understand one configuration interface for major providers like AWS and Google Cloud. You configure the application once and choose the provider independently.
Check out the article to read the full technical write up on achieving true cloud portability.
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