[ADR] Cloud Hosting

[piotrczyz]

Context

• architectural drivers, business cases

Currently, we use both Azure and GCP for hosting of our applications.

Question: should we base our architecture on one of the cloud providers or should we create an architecture that is cloud agnostic?

Decision

• the choice and the arguments

Consequences

• known issues which can occur because of chosen decision

Alternatives

• were there any other alternatives? why were they not choose

To begin with, there is a quite slight differences in both Azure and GCP and based on that developers could choose a cloud by preferences. However, it looks like Google invested a lot in API that could be used (via gcloud command) to configure different services. Creating new services at Google requires to setup a YAML file and the rest is handled by the platform.

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Multicloud

https://medium.com/microsoftazure/going-multicloud-with-kubernetes-and-azure-front-door-f34a2f39068a

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[piotrczyz]

I've added an interesting approach for multi-cloud architecture. @rvanoord