Assemble all your infrastructure (Ship It! #15)

Aug 18, 2021

Jared Watts and Dan Mangum, contributors to the Crossplane project, share insights into the tool's massive evolution over the past 18 months. They discuss how Crossplane has transformed into a leading choice for platform teams, enabling easy management of multi-cloud infrastructures with user-defined abstractions. The pair dive into the importance of community collaboration, automation, and the role of Kubernetes in modern infrastructure management. They also highlight recent innovations and the need for effective documentation to support new users.

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ANECDOTE

Marcus at Equinix

Gerhard asks about Marcus, who was on the 2019 podcast.
Jared explains that Marcus is still involved with Crossplane at Equinix.

INSIGHT

Crossplane's Evolution

Crossplane's experience has evolved, allowing users to define their own compositions and abstractions.
This offers more flexibility and power than earlier versions.

INSIGHT

Crossplane as a Platform Builder

Crossplane helps platform teams build their own platforms using Kubernetes API.
It enables provisioning infrastructure and evolving into a platform for others.

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In this episode, Gerhard follows up on The Changelog #375, which is the last time that he spoke Crossplane with Dan and Jared. Many things changed since then, such as abstractions and compositions, as well as using Crossplane to build platforms, which were mostly ideas.

Fast forward 18 months, 2k changes, as well as a major version, and Crossplane is now an easy choice - some would say the best choice - for platform teams to declare what infrastructure means to them. You can now use Crossplane to define your infrastructure abstractions across multiple vendors, including AWS, GCP & Equinix Metal. The crazy ideas from 2019 are now bold and within reach. Gerhard also has an idea for the changelog.com 2022 setup. Listen to what Jared & Dan think, and then let us know your thoughts too.

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Dan Mangum – Website, GitHub, X
Jared Watts – GitHub, X
Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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