You're reading from End-to-End Automation with Kubernetes and Crossplane Develop a control plane-based platform for unified infrastructure, services, and application automation

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801811545

Length 250 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Crossplane

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Arun Ramakani

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Kubernetes Disruption

2. Chapter 1: Introducing the New Operating Model FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Examining the State of Infrastructure Automation

4. Part 2: Building a Modern Infrastructure Platform

5. Chapter 3: Automating Infrastructure with Crossplane

6. Chapter 4: Composing Infrastructure with Crossplane

7. Chapter 5: Exploring Infrastructure Platform Patterns

8. Chapter 6: More Crossplane Patterns

9. Chapter 7: Extending and Scaling Crossplane

10. Part 3:Configuration Management Tools and Recipes

11. Chapter 8: Knowing the Trade-offs

12. Chapter 9: Using Helm, Kustomize, and KubeVela

13. Chapter 10: Onboarding Applications with Crossplane

14. Chapter 11: Driving the Platform Adoption

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing external software resources

We have always talked about managing external infrastructure resources using Crossplane from the beginning of this book. However, it does not always have to be just an infrastructure resource. We could even manage external software applications from Crossplane. For a software application to be able to work best with the Crossplane ecosystem, it must have the following qualities:

We should have well-defined and stable APIs to perform CRUD operations.
The API should have a high-fidelity design with filters to control granular application configuration.

It’s time to look at an example. Think about deploying an application in Kubernetes using Helm. Helm can package any application and provide a well-defined CRUD API to deploy, read, update, and uninstall. Above all, we can create granular control over the application configuration with parameters. We have a helm Crossplane provider already available and used extensively by...