Solutions from the DevOps front lines
Recently we got to grips with Crossplane v2 and how to create both bespoke CRDs and make use of it’s Composition system to create bespoke provisioning workflows. What we didn’t get to cover though is how to manage XRD...
In the last post we took a look at some of the fundamentals of Crossplane v2, specifically how authentication and integration with AWS (and cloud providers more broadly) is handled now. There is a lot more to cover th...
Crossplane is an interesting piece of software and a relative newcomer to the Infrastructure as Code space. It’s creators don’t like to bill it as an Infrastructure as Code solution, but the more you look…it’s primary...
One of the problems that’s been present in Terraform for a while is that any secrets that make their way in to your state remain visible in the clear. The state is, after all, just a big JSON document. There is an arg...
A long while ago I wrote about how to configure centralised State Locking for Terraform using Dynamo DB. This configuration has become battle tested and fairly low cost solution for anyone using Terraform in AWS and s...