This post was contributed by Andrea Veri from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME has historically hosted its infrastructure on premises. That changed with an AWS Open Source Credits program sponsorship which has allowed our team of two SREs to migrate the majority of the workloads to the cloud and turn the existing OpenShift environment into a fully scalable and fault tolerant one thanks to the infrastructure provided by AWS. By moving to the cloud, we have dramatically reduced the maintenance...
Would you drive a Tesla because it’s free? I wouldn’t. Sure, getting a free car sounds great, but I’m not gonna be a walking billboard for Tesla and basically help them shove even more cash down their greedy throat.
It’s called having a conscience and some morals.