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stackql-deploy Tutorial Shows How to Manage GCP and AWS Infrastructure from One Manifest

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A new tutorial for stackql-deploy demonstrates how developers can provision infrastructure across Google Cloud and AWS simultaneously using a single manifest file. The framework, which uses SQL-anchored declarative resource files, requires no separate state file and runs idempotently against live cloud APIs. Users combine two initialised provider projects into one manifest that lists both Google and AWS as providers, with each cloud resource defined in its own .iql file. The AWS side of the walkthrough introduces additional features such as per-environment CIDR values, tag-based resource identification, and provider-specific query helpers not needed in the simpler GCP example. The tutorial highlights that a multi-cloud stackql-deploy project is structurally identical to a single-cloud one, requiring only minor additions to the providers block and resource files.

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