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@ -104,3 +104,16 @@ can be treated as a provider, allowing Terraform to request resources from them.
This allows Terraform to be used in layers: to setup the physical infrastructure
running the schedulers as well as onto the scheduled grid.
#### Multi-Cloud Deployment
It's often attractive to spread infrastructure across multiple clouds to increase
fault-tolerance. By using only a single region or cloud provider, fault tolerance
is limited by the availability of that provider. Having a multi-cloud deployment
allows for more graceful recovery of the loss of a region or entire provider.
Realizing multi-cloud deployments can be very challenging as many existing tools
for infrastructure management are cloud-specific. Terraform is cloud agnostic,
and allows a single configuration to be used to manage multiple providers, and
to even handle cross-cloud dependcies. This simplifies management and orchestration,
helping operators build large scale multi-cloud infrastructures.