Serious question: Is there an emerging cross platform workflow language to just write stuff to run on any cloud/container hosting setup? The idea would be to be portable, avoid vendor lock-in and take advantage price differences or quickly route around a system failure in one of the providers.
https://www.terraform.io/
Is there a good way to sandbox terraform configurations? I'm not directly involved (just hear the screaming) but everything I'm hearing is that making modifications is a test of willpower.
For us it's been about as transparent as a brick wall and I'm not clear if that's down to our bureaucracy or built into the design. Both are anathema to the goal of making complex deployments straightforward and self-describing (you can't manage something this complicated unless big parts of it are as obvious as can be).