Managed services are where the lock-in is; or perhaps more generously, where the "increased friction to change providers" arises. If your deployment is nothing

Managed services are where the lock-in is; or perhaps more generously, where the "increased friction to change providers" arises. If your deployment is nothing more than scp from the post-build products on Github, you can use literally any server anywhere with SSH access. No lock in. But if your deployment is a button click from inside a DO managed service, well... you're SOL if you want to move. You have to build all the stuff you avoided building before (the time savings and therefore money savings). I really feel like some combination of the two should be possible. I've not yet seen a host come along that offers it. No large company would because they want reliable revenue generated due to lock in. I've thought about building it. The older I get the more it interests me. I've got all the basic scripts to make it work. Maybe I'll dive in one of these days..