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

XRM detailed

Being an extension of the KRM, XRM inherits most of the standards. As discussed in Chapters 3 and 4, Crossplane inherits many standards from the Kubernetes CRDs. The opinionated XRM standards over the basic Kubernetes standards define a uniform bridge between Kubernetes and the external resource. The XRM standards cover the following characteristics:

Configuration fidelity
Spec and status configuration
Naming the custom and external resources
Configuration ownership
Sensitive input and output fields

We can dive into the details of each of these characteristics in the following sections.

Configuration fidelity

The MR should have all possible fields available for configuration in the external resource API. It delivers every configuration combination at the control plane level. We should leave the abstractions to encode policy and the recipe creation for the platform developers via XR. Every field available for configuration in the external...