I agree it would be a good stepping stone. But it doesn't seem like we are stepping anywhere. For example, if there was a clear vision to a real cloud-based co

I agree it would be a good stepping stone. But it doesn't seem like we are stepping anywhere. For example, if there was a clear vision to a real cloud-based company, I would have at least made facilities to to do new things The New Way rather than forcing everything to be the old way. Which is what they're doing. I needed a beefy server do run a big datacrunch periodically, using only minimal software which I can easily autodeploy for every crunch, run it a few hours and kill it till the next time. Sounds like a great option to use cloud, right? Kubernetes would be a bit heavy for this but I could totally ansible this. However there seems to be no way in our org to get a server I can simply spin up when I need it. It needs to be requested in advance in threefold, internal billing agreed etc, and even if I turn it off we'll still be billed for it because I can't destroy it. Destroying and spinning up a new one would mean going through the entire rigmarole again :P The funny thing is, we always do this. By the time we actually go full-on cloud, the world will already have moved on and be on the next great thing, and our neat cloud setup will be all deprecated tech.