📄️ Crossplane
Infrastructure orchestration platform that extends the Kubernetes API to manage resources from any provider through a universal interface, transforming Kubernetes into a universal control plane for IaC and Platform Engineering.
📄️ Installation
Complete guide to installing Crossplane using Helm, including cluster configuration, deployments, RBAC manager, high availability best practices, and installation customization for production environments.
📄️ Provider
Understand how Crossplane communicates with external APIs through providers, including installation, configuration, authentication, resource management, and best practices for different providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, and other services.
📄️ RuntimeConfig
Learn to completely customize Crossplane provider execution using DeploymentRuntimeConfig, including resource control, security settings, pod placement, tolerations, and deployment strategies for different environments.
📄️ Provider Lab 1
Practical lab configuring multiple Crossplane providers, including GitHub and GitLab with token authentication, creating repositories and projects through Kubernetes manifests, and managing cluster-level resources.
📄️ Provider Lab 2
Continuation of provider lab focusing on ArgoCD and Confluent Kafka, configuring GitOps application integration, application management through Crossplane, and providers for messaging and data streaming systems.
📄️ Managed Resources
Learn to create and manage external resources through Crossplane, including deletion policies, forProvider, resource references, automatic annotations, drift detection, continuous reconciliation, and best practices for declarative management.
📄️ Composition Concepts
Explore advanced Composition concepts in Crossplane, including CompositeResourceDefinitions (XRDs), Kubernetes API extension, OpenAPI schemas, custom controllers, resource abstraction, and creating custom APIs for Platform Engineering.