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What DevOps cloud management tools are you using for multi-cloud environments?
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We're expanding to a multi-cloud setup with AWS, GCP, and Azure, and managing everything is becoming a nightmare. I'm looking for DevOps cloud management tools that can handle infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and configuration management across all three platforms.
I've looked at Terraform, Pulumi, and some cloud-specific tools, but I'm wondering what the community is actually using in production. What DevOps cloud management tools have you found most effective for maintaining consistency and operational excellence across different cloud providers?
We're using Terraform with Terragrunt for our multi-cloud setup. Terraform handles the infrastructure as code part pretty well across clouds, though you do need different providers for each cloud. Terragrunt helps with keeping our code DRY across environments.
For configuration management, we're using Ansible. It works with all three major clouds, though the learning curve can be steep. The key is writing reusable roles that abstract away cloud-specific details.
We went with Pulumi instead of Terraform and I'm really happy with that decision. Being able to use real programming languages (we use TypeScript) instead of HCL has been a game changer. The multi-cloud support is excellent and the state management is much cleaner than Terraform's.
For deployment automation, we're using ArgoCD across all clouds. It gives us a consistent GitOps workflow regardless of where the workloads are running.
We're using Crossplane as our DevOps cloud management tool. It's Kubernetes-native, so you manage cloud resources through Kubernetes CRDs. This gives us a consistent interface across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
The learning curve is steep but once you get it, it's incredibly powerful. You can define composite resources that span multiple clouds and manage everything through kubectl.
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