Start here A few weeks ago I wrote an article about Port and some of its use cases. I realized that maybe I should also cover what an Internal Developer Platform, or IDP for short, is. So to get us kicked off, we are going back to basics and exploring IDPs and their various flavors. An Internal Developer Platform is one of those terms that somehow gets less clear the more people use it. ...
Start here You already know Terraform. So the fastest way to explain Crossplane is to tell you what it is not: it is not Terraform running inside a cluster. It is a different model, and the difference is the entire reason to care. Terraform is something you run. You point it at some config, it builds a plan, you apply, it exits. Crossplane is something that runs. You install it into Kubernetes, tell it what infrastructure you want, and a controller keeps reality matching that want forever. Nobody types apply. The loop never stops. ...