New GitHub Repository

👋 This is a quick post to let you know that I've created a new GitHub repository containing free Crossplane templates

I'll be blogging about my journey into Crossplane shortly so stay tuned.

For those unaware of what Crossplane is you can find out more on the official site here https://crossplane.io/

The TL;DR is that Crossplane is a way of extending Kubernetes and transforming it into a universal cloud management control plane.

I've spent a lot of time using Cloudformation and CDK for AWS (a little bit less with cfndsl and Terraform) and keep hitting very similar problems along the way. I'm very excited by this new wave of control planes and the benefits they will bring over the existing approach to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

Recently I was working to setup an internal platform team. Through this journey I discovered a number of new ideas which I'll talk about in future blog posts. One of the core components we were investigating was the creation of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), which in turn led me to Crossplane along with the wonderful community over at https://platformengineering.org/.

See you in the next one! ✌