Installing and configuring providers

Once we have the Crossplane core component installed in the Kubernetes cluster, the next step is installing and configuring the Crossplane provider. We will install and configure the GCP provider, which is the scope of our tutorial. We can do this in a three-step process:

1. Setting up a cloud account
2. Installing a provider
3. Configuring the provider

We will look at each of these aspects in detail with a step-by-step guide in the following sections.

Setting up a cloud account

We need to have a Google Cloud account with the project and billing setup enabled. Google Cloud offers $300 credit for new users to learn and experiment for a maximum of 3 months, provided you have a credit card. It will be more than enough for us to learn Crossplane and other infrastructure automation concepts. All we need to do is log on to the Google Cloud account to fill out a form and start the free trial. The next step is to create a separate project...