One of the things that I thought would be neat is an open source CloudFormation that could work for multiple cloud vendors, possibly using a driver pattern.
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Terraform is awesome if you want an OSS project to manage multiple cloud vendors.
But I think that infrastructure change management is a really hard problem and the state of the art solution is how AWS runs CloudFormation as a managed service.
Once it's set up properly, it's amazing watching what CloudFormation can do. It can execute updating 20 instances to roll out a new AMI, and then roll the whole operation back on demand or if a failure happens. All with no application downtime in the cluster!