It's inevitable that we'll see many of these as open source projects along with the cloud providers own "multi-cloud" solutions that pin the control plane to th

It's inevitable that we'll see many of these as open source projects along with the cloud providers own "multi-cloud" solutions that pin the control plane to their own platforms. This is the holy grail of hybrid solutions we've been chasing for years, but whenever we arrive at a solution a replatforming effort begins. Before it was VMs, this time it's containers. Maybe, just maybe the kubernetes container wave will stick and we'll see some runtime agnostic system exist where workloads can be placed based on a set of tags e.g gdpr, eu-west-1, etc, etc. But at the same time. What does it matter? Surely the cloud was about handing off to this magical thing somewhere far away and letting it handle the details. I think cloud got dissected down further and further into the nitty gritty details to a point where we just turned everything that was physical into an API, UI click or terraform script. It's useful for a certain operator, a certain layer in the stack, but honestly it is not useful to anyone trying to build a consumer facing product. It is a level of detail no one should have to contend with. Cloud vendor risk, is the same as datacenters of the past. There's tradeoffs that you accept in the face of the ability to move faster and letting that cloud providers handle everything. There's always the potential for black swan events but the optimisation for that 0.001% leads to overly complex solutions for the sake of it. I really hope that in a few years we are not talking about this stuff. I really hope cloud is reimagined as an ever evolving network, where you build programmatically for a local experience and it gets replicated everywhere without having to think about the details. Hopes and dreams and who am I kidding, these things never happen.