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

AWS provider setup

Some of the examples in this chapter will use AWS as the cloud provider. Apart from GCP, we are covering AWS to establish what it takes to work with a new cloud provider. It will help us realize how working with one cloud provider will enable us to be competent enough to handle any cloud provider in Crossplane. We can look at the AWS provider setup in the following three steps:

Creating an AWS account and IAM user
Creating the Kubernetes secret
Provider and ProviderConfig setup

Creating an AWS account and IAM user

You can register with AWS and use some of its services free, provided you have a credit card. You can read more about the AWS free tier at https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/. Once you have the free account created, the next step is to create a new IAM user. The following screenshots will cover the different stages in the IAM user creation. Go to the IAM section in the AWS web console and click Add a user. Select the credentials...