There are a couple of big cloud providers, according to the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services from Gartner. At the moment of writing this blog post those are Amazon with AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, IBM and Tencent Cloud. Due to the frequent and ongoing changes in this field, it might be useful to not only count on one of those big providers, but using a rather distributed multi-provider approach, when it comes to migrating to the cloud with your infrastructure and applications.
In this blogpost we will take a look on how you can use multiple providers when applying Terraform as a tool of choice for the infrastructure, as it proclaims to be provider-independent.
Which way to go
This post is not intended to align strictly with any good or best practices, rather it is just the extended documentation of the test on how easy it is to create infrastructure with an IaC-approach with Terraform as a multi-cloud provider tool, processing only basic background knowledge.
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