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this is pretty interesting. Quick question - let's take a popular piece of software (Apache Airflow). Let's say i want to set it up on AWS EKS with all the best practices + spot instances cost reduction ... how would i do it with OpsFlow ?

The problem with devops is that i dont know the "right way". I dont know whether i should use private VPC or a public VPC, etc etc.

So a library of readymade "templates" would be quite useful.

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We attempted to do something similar with my last company (Atomized YC S20). We had a vision of creating an "app store" approach to infrastructure. The hardest problem we ran into wasn't build out the engine that did all the work but actually creating the templates and ensuring that everything was built with best practices in mind. Another issue we ran into was all the options that were available such as instance size. We ended up failing as a company because we couldn't find that balance between giving too much (and essentially re-creating the AWS Console UI) and giving too little with a "one-click" approach.

I still believe there is a market for this - but I'm not sure how big of a market it is to be honest. There is definitely a need for a product like this to exist though.

thanks so much for sharing this Nick! It takes a great deal of courage to share this sort of thing publicly, and I do greatly appreciate it. It is also extremely helpful as we are facing very similar challenges.

thanks so much for this.

I'm curious about this - are u saying early stage devops teams want to build everything themselves ? I mean what im asking is a very "Gruntworks" kind of approach.

Did u not find that to be the case with Atomized ?

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