IMO the best open source infra lock-in strategy is kube
took a while for E/AKS to catch up with G, things like ingress still vary in DX across clouds
'the same everywhere but it only works here'
(no comment on morality of this, quality of kube generally, or whether this team will do the same. docker IMO missed the chance to be a cloud host or a standard interface)
Completely off-topic, but k8s actually removes a lot of the vendor lock-in. Imagine having to migrate a k8s based app from AWS to Azure vs a pure AWS-based setup, provisioned with cloudformation. Sure it'll involve some work, but I know what I'd pick. I've personally ran workloads originally intended to be deployed on GKE on on-prem openshift clusters with very few changes, other than indeed the mentioned ingress stuff.
That was also the initial goals of k8s - make it universal so it's adopted as a standard by everyone else to make yourself competitive against the AWS juggernaut. And it worked.
concern: like every system that we think of as cloud software, the 'cloud platform integration' half of it never gets open sourced
same as like, aws extending mysql and postgres to provide RDS features -- they don't open source those pieces, so 'stock oss' DBs don't have fancy RDS features like backup + restore
with kube, platform-integrated components like network, ingress + storage 1) require custom work on each cloud, so new features won't be available on all clouds at the same time.
But also 2) that means some components, ingress specifically, have different interfaces on different clouds when they do finally get implemented.
took a while for E/AKS to catch up with G, things like ingress still vary in DX across clouds
'the same everywhere but it only works here'
(no comment on morality of this, quality of kube generally, or whether this team will do the same. docker IMO missed the chance to be a cloud host or a standard interface)