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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

AWS provider setup

Some of the examples in this chapter will use AWS as the cloud provider. Apart from GCP, we are covering AWS to establish what it takes to work with a new cloud provider. It will help us realize how working with one cloud provider will enable us to be competent enough to handle any cloud provider in Crossplane. We can look at the AWS provider setup in the following three steps:

  1. Creating an AWS account and IAM user
  2. Creating the Kubernetes secret
  3. Provider and ProviderConfig setup

Creating an AWS account and IAM user

You can register with AWS and use some of its services free, provided you have a credit card. You can read more about the AWS free tier at https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/. Once you have the free account created, the next step is to create a new IAM user. The following screenshots will cover the different stages in the IAM user creation. Go to the IAM section in the AWS web console and click Add a user. Select the credentials...