8 A multi-cloud MMORPG

This chapter covers

  • Deploying a multi-cloud load balancer
  • Federating Nomad and Consul clusters with Terraform
  • Deploying containerized workloads with the Nomad provider
  • Comparing container orchestration architectures with those for managed services

Terraform makes it easy to deploy to the multi-cloud. You can use all the same tools and techniques you’ve already been using. In this chapter, we build on everything we have done so far to deploy a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) to the multi-cloud.

Multi-cloud refers to any heterogeneous architecture that employs multiple cloud vendors. For example, you may have a Terraform project that deploys resources onto both AWS and GCP; that would be multi-cloud. ...

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