Crossplane

The challenge Deploy a solution for configuring Kubernetes “from the inside”. Install Crossplane, which is like Terraform but you manage the infra from inside Kubernetes, not from outside. Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher level self-service APIs for application teams to consume, without having to write any code. Initial thoughts I have used Terraform for more than a year now and to provision infrastructures using plain Kubernetes manifests is a very refreshing idea to me. I feel that Crossplane definitely benefits organizations that are already heavily invested in Kubernetes. Having a unified language to manage both infrastructures and applications makes a lot of sense especially if developers in your team are comfortable working with Kubernetes. This reduces the overhead of learning something completely new like Terraform. That said, Crossplane is still a relatively young project at the time of writing this. There aren’t as many providers and the managed resources under each of them are way lesser as compared to Terraform providers. ...