CCSP Cloud Concepts, Architecture, and Design Practice Question
A company is designing a multi-cloud strategy to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure portability. They are considering using containers and an open-source orchestration platform. Which of the following is the BEST choice to achieve workload portability across different cloud providers?
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Why each option matters
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that allows portability across clouds.
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Kubernetes
Why this is correct
Kubernetes is open-source and supported by all major cloud providers.
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Azure Functions
Why it's wrong here
Azure Functions is proprietary to Azure.
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AWS Lambda
Why it's wrong here
Lambda is a proprietary serverless service from AWS, causing lock-in.
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VMware vSphere
Why it's wrong here
vSphere is a hypervisor, not a container orchestrator, and is proprietary.
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