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End-to-End Automation with Kubernetes and Crossplane

By : Arun Ramakani
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End-to-End Automation with Kubernetes and Crossplane

By: Arun Ramakani

Overview of this book

In the last few years, countless organizations have taken advantage of the disruptive application deployment operating model provided by Kubernetes. With Crossplane, the same benefits are coming to the world of infrastructure provisioning and management. The limitations of Infrastructure as Code with respect to drift management, role-based access control, team collaboration, and weak contract make people move towards a control-plane-based infrastructure automation, but setting it up requires a lot of know-how and effort. This book will cover a detailed journey to building a control-plane-based infrastructure automation platform with Kubernetes and Crossplane. The cloud-native landscape has an overwhelming list of configuration management tools that can make it difficult to analyze and choose. This book will guide cloud-native practitioners to select the right tools for Kubernetes configuration management that best suit the use case. You'll learn about configuration management with hands-on modules built on popular configuration management tools such as Helm, Kustomize, Argo, and KubeVela. The hands-on examples will be patterns that one can directly use in their work. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with building a modern infrastructure automation platform to unify application and infrastructure automation.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Kubernetes Disruption
4
Part 2: Building a Modern Infrastructure Platform
10
Part 3:Configuration Management Tools and Recipes

Chapter 11: Driving the Platform Adoption

By now, you might be thinking about adopting Crossplane in your organization. As we’ve discussed many times, we must set up a platform team to support every product team across the organization adopting Crossplane. But many organizations fail with their technology platform projects because these platforms impact the agility of the consuming teams in many ways. Setting up proper boundaries and an interaction model between the product and platform teams is key to the success of a platform. This chapter aims to help you understand the aspects required to build and adopt a successful infrastructure platform. We will also look at a few common pitfalls that can lead to weak platform adoption and low return on investment.

The following are the topics covered in this chapter:

  • Why we need an infrastructure platform as a product
  • Understanding customers’ needs
  • The platform prodcut life cycle and team interaction
  • The...