Chapter 10: Onboarding Applications with Crossplane

This will be a fully hands-on chapter where we will look at the end-to-end automation of an application and all its dependencies. The dependencies will involve the setup of the project repository, creating the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, dependent infrastructure resources, and so on. You will see the real power of how Crossplane can automate every possible step, starting from the initial repository setup. We will go through the hands-on journey from the perspective of three different personas. The three personas are the platform developer creating the required XR/claim APIs, the application operator configuring the application deployment using the XR/claim, and the developer contributing to the application development. The platform developer persona is the key to the whole journey, so most of the content in this chapter will be from their perspective. Whenever required, we will explicitly mention...