TGIK

In this episode

Full notes up at https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/tgik/tree/master/episodes/146

• 00:00:25 - Welcome to TGIK!
• 00:03:36 - Week in Review
• 00:11:11 - Welcome to Crossplane
• 00:13:40 - Brief OAM digression
• 00:18:50 - Crossplane install
• 00:24:20 - Install Crossplane kubectl extension
• 00:29:50 - Exploring Crossplane RBAC-manager
• 00:34:45 - Installing the AWS provider
• 00:43:30 - Diving into Crossplane packaging
• 00:46:00 - Mention of dependency confusion attacks: https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
• 00:49:25 - Using https://github.com/wagoodman/dive to view package contents
• 00:50:20 - Creating a PostgreSQL instance
• 00:56:20 - Diving in to how a PostgreSQL db backed by RDS is represented in Crossplane
• 01:02:40 - Resource parameters, patches and resource sizing
• 01:09:00 - Trying to figure out how to say “database with 8GB RAM” at different cloud providers
• 01:13:00 - Investigating patch options
• 01:16:10 - Got the RDS instance running!
• 01:19:20 - Crossplane resource category list
• 01:23:00 - Discussion about cluster-level Crossplane Providers and Compositions (vs namespace level)
• 01:25:10 - Dependencies / building your own Compositions

Come hang out with Evan Anderson (@e_k_anderson) and learn about Crossplane as he does so. Evan’s familiar with Kubernetes and operators, but what can he build with Crossplane?