The author examines Crossplane, a new player in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) market, that follows a GitOps approach to IaC.
- Crossplane is an open-source Kubernetes add-on that transforms your cluster into a universal control plane.
- Crossplane 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.
- It adheres to the principles of Infrastructure as Data, uses YAML to declaratively provision Cloud resources, and does not let you alter Cloud infrastructure outside the tool, making it an intriguing alternative to other IaC solutions like Terraform and Pulumi.
