Installing Crossplane

I have set up a local Kubernetes cluster on my Macintosh computer. We will make this cluster the Crossplane control plane for provisioning resources from Google Cloud Platform in our tutorials. To follow the tutorials, we assume that you already have access to a Kubernetes cluster. If you need help setting up a local Kubernetes cluster, refer to https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/. kind is one of the simplest ways to set up a local Kubernetes cluster, but you can work on the tutorials with any Kubernetes cluster setup. The following screenshot gives a quick glimpse at cluster information, versions, and node details:

Figure 3.6 – Cluster information, versions, and node details

While there are a few ways to install Crossplane in Kubernetes, we will install it with a Helm chart. Make sure you have Helm installed. Installing Helm is pretty simple on both Macintosh and Windows with the brew or choco package managers. The following commands can...