Preparing the control plane

This is the stage to install the required components into the Crossplane cluster. We will establish the necessary providers and respective configurations. The first step will be to install the GCP provider.

The GCP provider

This is the same step we took in Chapter 3, Automating Infrastructure with Crossplane, but slightly deviating from it. We will differ in how we create and use the GCP provider configuration. It is good to have an individual provider configuration for each product team to enhance security, auditing, policy compliance, governance, and so on in using the XR/claim APIs. Each product team and platform team should create a different provider configuration referring to a separate GCP service account secret. The provider configurations will be named against the product (product-a), and a new namespace will be created with the same name. The compositions will be developed in such a way to refer to the provider configuration based on the...