Simple and efficient development of cloud-native applications still poses significant challenges for many teams. In addition to the implementation of features and microservices, developers are now often also responsible for building the required cloud services with Infrastructure as Code à la Terraform. Unfortunately, this quickly leads to high cognitive overload and suboptimal solutions.
Crossplane, ACK and other open source add-ons for Kubernetes try to address this problem. With these extensions, cloud infrastructure can be declaratively provisioned easily without writing a single line of code. This session shows the practical use of both technologies and its core functions, using AWS and GCP as an example, as well as the seamless integration with a GitOps approach.