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

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Understanding customers’ needs

A platform team for infrastructure means external delivery dependency. This is something that is always avoided by agile product development teams. If you have worked in a large organization, you might have noticed that the product teams are often unhappy with what the platform team offers. They have issues with the delivery timeline, backlog coupling, and weak contracts. It is critical to set up a proper interaction model between the product and platform teams to mitigate these risks. The following are qualities that a platform team should possess to match the delivery expectations of product teams in the modern software engineering era: