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Mastering Multi-Cloud with Terraform and GitLab CI
Introduction
As organizations increasingly adopt multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in and leverage the best services from different providers, managing infrastructure across multiple clouds becomes a significant challenge. This post provides a technical guide on how to master multi-cloud infrastructure management using Terraform and GitLab CI, enabling you to build a robust and automated workflow.
Why Multi-Cloud?
A multi-cloud strategy offers several advantages:
- Flexibility and Choice: Use the best-of-breed services from different cloud providers (e.g., AWS for machine learning, Azure for enterprise integrations, Google Cloud for data analytics).
- Cost Optimization: Take advantage of competitive pricing and avoid being locked into a single provider’s pricing model.
- Improved Resilience: Distribute your applications and data across multiple clouds to improve disaster recovery and reduce the risk of downtime.
- Compliance and Data Sovereignty: Meet regulatory requirements by storing data in specific geographic regions offered by different providers.
The Power of Terraform for Multi-Cloud
Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that allows you to define and provision infrastructure using a declarative configuration language. Its key advantage for multi-cloud is its provider-based architecture. Terraform has a vast ecosystem of providers for all major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.), as well as for many other services.
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