Chapter 5: Exploring Infrastructure Platform Patterns
The success of running an infrastructure platform product with Crossplane depends on following a few principles and patterns as and when required. This chapter will explore some of these critical practices. We will also learn a few debugging skills while exploring the concepts. After learning the basics of the Crossplane in the last few chapters, this will be a place for learning advanced patterns that are key to building the state-of-the-art infrastructure platform for your organization. You will learn a few critical aspects of building robust XR APIs and debugging issues with ease.
The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:
- Evolving the APIs
- Nested and multi-resource XRs
- XRD detailed
- Managing external software resources