The very brief version: “going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, whose proprietary services will now be part of your business processes “forever”. Be specific which variant of cloud you are signing off on! I’m mostly out of the office but this post was already in the pipeline and I thought it might be useful to get it out.
Economists love scale. Start-ups love scaling up (and so do investors). Politicians love large-scale, global stuff. And in all things digital, economies of scale are assumed to be a common feature of markets - high fixed cost, low marginal cost, network effects, yada yada yada. BUT: There is a very
tl;dr (den ultra korte version): ¶ I de tekniske fag på Erhvervsakademi København kunne man… afskaffe brugen af Azure Web Apps, Azure Managed MySQL på 2. semester introducere Docker Compose og Linux på 2. semester i stedet driftssætte via Docker Compose på Linux på en VPS på 3. semester En opsummering af artiklen nedenfor: ¶ Ved at undervise i cloud-agnostisk teknologi som ikke fastlåser én til den enkelte cloud: Teknologier som Docker Compose, Linux og SSH, Terraform, Ansible og Kubernetes Workflows som GitOps, organisationer såsom CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) VM’er, S3, open-source relationelle databaser, Virtual Private Cloud (netværksopsætning) Undgå at undervise i cloud-teknologier som er helt unikke for én cloud fordi de er særligt indviklede: Databaser: Amazon DynamoDB / Azure Cosmos DB / Google Cloud Firestore Proprietære on-premise-løsninger: AWS Outpost Web interfaces: Azure Web Apps Identitet: Azure AD / Entra ID / AWS IAM / Cloud IAM / Cloud Identity Containerized serverless: Google Cloud Run / AWS Fargate / Azure Container Apps Der findes ingen europæiske cloud-alternativer til de store amerikanske clouds Der findes suveræne cloud-baserede alternativer, hvis man siger “cloud” er et spektrum Suverænitet opnås igennem ejerskab frem for outsourcing af drift og intellekt Hvordan forstås suverænitet? ¶ “The cloud is just someone else’s computer.” - Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow co-founder)