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

Testing the configurations

The platform developers require a way to test the XRs and configurations they develop. Also, many teams might be interested in practicing test-driven development. This section of the book will explore KUbernetes Test TooL (KUTTL) as the test tool for practicing test-driven development and configuration-testing pipelines. KUTTL is a declarative test tool that tests for the best Kubernetes controller states and CRDs. The critical feature of KUTTL is writing declarative test cases against the CR. Being able to work well with CRs and CRDs, KUTTL can also work well with XR, XRDs, and Claim. First, we will look at the basic installation and setup required.

Installing KUTTL

The KUTTL CLI is an extension to kubectl. To install KUTTL, we will first install Krew. This is a kubectl plugin manager that helps discover, install, and update kubectl plugins. To install on a macOS/Linux operating system, run the following script: