Personally the appeal isn't high for me myself, but I tend towards more DIY. And I generally feel like a little nit doing an ec2 copy is a poor indicator, and t

Personally the appeal isn't high for me myself, but I tend towards more DIY. And I generally feel like a little nit doing an ec2 copy is a poor indicator, and that platforms tend more towards being at parity than differentiating. My tiny little Azure Cloud nit on a rare-for-me encounters with Azure Cloud was the dev tools requiring two totally separate login types for seemingly no real reason other than a lack of updating a legacy system, and that made me forever think Azure Cloud was kind of dialing it in. It made working with them more complex than anything else I'd worked with. One thing I think we agree a lot on is the value of good directory services: > Today, when I go and look at Azure Active Directory, I have a level of confidence that simply does not exist anywhere else. Everything can be made to suffer our policies and procedures from top-down. With my interest in DIY, self-hosting, I have long & increasingly felt like the weakest link is Directory Services. Tons of great great ways to run operate & maintain systems. But man, keeping track of employees (and ideally users too, albeit in a separate Directory) is hard! Roles are hard! Red Hat's FreeIPA is good stuff (albeit on the somewhat off base/lower development 389ds Directory Server), a huge collection of tools to help setup infra. But it's been fairly inaccessible until semi-recently & it definitely requires significant growing in & expertise. And it's one of the only high-integration options out there. There's tons of great tools that complement each other well to build amazing directory service systems, but FreeIPA is one of the only already well integrated options. And it's still only semi Cloud integrated. Trying to setup Kubernetes to use this all is still a huge second feat. I think, with the native cloud world, the directory service concerns are rapidly becoming the biggest gate, the worst hurdle, for those trying to set themselves up as capable computer operators. We seemingly both share appreciation for this task.