GitOpsify Everything: When Crossplane Meets Argo CD
summary
A Crossplane-based bridge is implemented so Argo CD manages both OpenShift infrastructure and apps from Git: a cluster pool of pre-provisioned OCP 4.10.3 clusters is defined in Git/Helm, Argo CD syncs it, the Crossplane provider calls the infra APIs, writes endpoints/creds to secrets, and continuously reconciles — deleted clusters are auto-recreated. Parallel work adds an ansible provider that runs remote Galaxy/Git playbooks via a single-run controller, supports dry-run then create/update, and requires idempotent playbooks with a state field.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Agenda
- 1:45CI/CD Deployment Pipeline - Generic View
- 3:58Infrastructure Provisioning / Lifecycle Management
- 6:08Crossplane as an abstraction platform for Infrastructure Provisioning
- 9:45Managing Infrastructure Lifecycle and Application Deployment using GitOps
- 14:19Automation in Non-Claud-Native World - Generic View
- 18:38The Ansible Run Lifecycle Crossplane Managed Resource Lifecycle
- 21:05The Ansible Run Lifecycle Mapping Ansible Runto Managed Resource Lifecycle
- 22:38Best Practices for Ansible User
- 24:24Comparing with Ansible Operator
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