kubernetes

What’s Crossplane? Crossplane is an Open Source tool, which allows you to manage Cloud infrastructure as Kubernetes objects. In other words, you can create, modify, and delete AWS cloud assets using only Kubernetes manifests in the same way as with Terraform (or another IaC tool). It also allows you to manage cloud resources in different public clouds using a concept of providers very similarly to Terraform. Therefore, Crossplane allows engineers to manage the whole application lifecycle from a single entry point e....

Image source I’ve been using Kubernetes for almost a year and want to share some takeaways and things I’ve learned about it so far. Some context. We had a team of two engineers working not only on Kubernetes but on all infrastructure-related topics. Our main application was a Python monolith, plus a few satellite-services. Our infrastructure was dynamic due to autoscaling, and a lot of things were optimized for costs (check out my article about running Kubernetes on AWS Spot instances)....