Chapter 11: Driving the Platform Adoption

By now, you might be thinking about adopting Crossplane in your organization. As we’ve discussed many times, we must set up a platform team to support every product team across the organization adopting Crossplane. But many organizations fail with their technology platform projects because these platforms impact the agility of the consuming teams in many ways. Setting up proper boundaries and an interaction model between the product and platform teams is key to the success of a platform. This chapter aims to help you understand the aspects required to build and adopt a successful infrastructure platform. We will also look at a few common pitfalls that can lead to weak platform adoption and low return on investment.

The following are the topics covered in this chapter:

• Why we need an infrastructure platform as a product
• Understanding customers’ needs
• The platform prodcut life cycle and team interaction
• The...