End-to-End Automation with Kubernetes and Crossplane

Develop a control plane-based platform for unified infrastructure, services, and application automation

Arun Ramakani

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

End-to-End Automation with Kubernetes and Crossplane

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To my parents, for their commitment to guiding me on the right career path at every little step. To my wife and son, for being very supportive and sacrificing their needs to assist me on this book journey. Finally, to my close friend and buddy, Prabu Soundarrajan, who helped shape my technical perception for this book and beyond.

– Arun Ramakani

Contributors

About the author

Arun Ramakani is a passionate distributed platform development and technology blogging expert living in Dubai, a dynamic city where many cultures meet. He is currently working as a technology architect at PwC, specializing in evolutionary architecture practices, Kubernetes DevOps, cloud-native apps, and microservices. He has over a decade of experience in working with a variety of different technologies, domains, and teams. He has been part of many digital transformation journeys in the last few years. This book is inspired by one of his recent works. He is enthusiastic about learning in public and committed to helping individuals in their cloud-native learning journeys.

I want to thank the people who have been close to me and supported me, especially my wife, son, and parents. I would like to thank Kelsey Hightower, who inspired me to do some significant work around the Kubernetes ecosystem and mentoring me during the office hours. Finally, I want to thank everyone in the Crossplane community for providing me with inspiration for lots of the ideas covered in the book.

About the reviewer

Werner Dijkerman is a freelancing cloud, (certified) Kubernetes, and DevOps engineer, currently focused and working on cloud-native solutions and tools such as AWS, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform. His focus is on infrastructure as code and monitoring the correct “thing” with tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, and the ELK stack. Big thanks, hugs, and shoutouts to Anca Borodi, Theo Punter, and the rest of the team at COERA!