PlatformOps with Crossplane
summary
Crossplane is presented as a Kubernetes-native way to provision cloud services by adding CRDs so Kubernetes manifests (instead of Terraform) drive creation and deletion of cloud resources via the reconciler. The talk shows an initial example using four YAML manifests (one Deployment plus three infra resources) and a later design that consolidates infra into a single composite resource plus the Deployment; it notes credentials are stored in Kubernetes Secrets, providers are used (many generated by Upjet), and Crossplane is incubating but used in production, trading reduced ops work for added security, governance, cognitive, and maintenance costs.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00PlatformOps vs DevOps
- 8:36Terraform for IaC
- 15:25Crossplane for simpler infra
- 26:37Crossplane pros and cons
- 30:37Q&A
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