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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Helm provider hands-on

It is exciting to introduce this aspect of Crossplane. It is precisely the crossroads where it unifies infrastructure automation and application automation. After creating an infrastructure resource, we would be interested in doing additional operations. For example, after deploying a Kubernetes cluster, we would be interested in setting up Prometheus or deploying an application in the remote Kubernetes cluster. Helm Crossplane provider can perform this operation.

Similarly, after provisioning a database, we will be interested in creating tables. SQL provider can perform these activities from Crossplane. The examples open a way to define all application dependencies in Crossplane and package them along with infrastructure. This section will go through a hands-on journey to experiment with Crossplane Helm provider. We will use GCP to create a Kubernetes cluster. It will fit well within the free tier limits. The following diagram represents how the Helm provider...