On: Goodbye Google Cloud, Hello Digital Ocean

[Permagate]

You could spin up a server with just one AWS CLI command (and most likely google console, but I have no experience with it). As you said, just specify the server spec in the command option. Though, AWS CLI is very verbose with their commands, imo.

Anything more complex, such as weaving several server under one VPC with a load balancer and routing configuration, I'd recommend checking out terraform. It also supports multiple cloud providers.

[kthejoker2 → Permagate]

There's also an Azure CLI. You can spin up a Docker Container in one line:

az container create --name mycontainer --image microsoft/aci-helloworld --resource-group myResourceGroup --ip-address public --ports 80