Terraform on Anthony Mineer

Crossplane for People Who Already Know Terraform

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Building a Self-Service IDP on Port.io and GitLab CI/CD

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why bother

Every team eventually hits the moment where a developer needs a project, account, sub, or a bucket, or a pubsub, and the options are: file a ticket and wait three days, or DM the one person who knows the Terraform. Neither scales. So the developer does what developers do, which is find a way around you. They write a shell script. Then someone copies the shell script. Six months later you’ve got fourteen “projects” with no consistent IAM, no state backend anyone can find, and a bucket named test-final-real that’s somehow in production.