A complete journey to automating the infrastructure provisioning and cloud-native applications deployment
Key Features
- Leverage Crossplane and Kubernetes for a unified automation experience of infrastructure and apps
- Build a modern self-service infrastructure platform abstracting recipes and in-house policies
- Clear guidance on trade-offs to manage Kubernetes configuration management and ecosystem tools
Book Description
In the last few years, countless organizations have taken advantage of the disruptive application deployment operating model provided by Kubernetes. With the launch of 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 away toward 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 by CNCF has an overwhelming list of 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, CNAB, Argo, Keptn, and Open Policy Agent. The hands-on examples will be patterns that one can directly use in their day-to-day work.
By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have become well-versed with building a modern infrastructure automation platform to unify application and infrastructure automation.
What you will learn
- Understand the context of Kubernetes-based infrastructure automation
- Get to grips with Crossplane concepts with the help of practical examples
- Extend Crossplane to build a modern infrastructure automation platform
- Use ideal configuration management tools in the Kubernetes environment
- Explore patterns to unify application and infrastructure automation
- Discover top engineering practices for infrastructure platform as a product
Who This Book Is For
This book is for cloud architects, platform engineers, infrastructure or application operators, and Kubernetes enthusiasts interested in simplifying the infrastructure and application automation. A basic understanding of Kubernetes and its building blocks like Pod, Deployment, Service, and Namespace is needed before you can get started with this book.
Table of Contents
- Introducing The New Operating Model
- Examining the Evolution of Infrastructure Automation
- Automating Infrastructure with Crossplane
- Composing Infrastructure for Crossplane
- Extending Providers
- Exploring Infrastructure Platform Patterns
- Extending and Scaling Crossplane
- Using Helm, Kustomize, Keptn and ArgoCD
- Implementing Security, Compliance, and Architecture Policies
- Onboarding Applications with Crossplane
- Packaging Infrastructure and Application
- Driving The Platform Adoption
