Lightning Talk: Crossplane and Promises - Steve Cavallo, Cloudcheckr
summary
Claims that Crossplane enforces desired-state promises where Terraform and CloudFormation fall short: Terraform produces spot instance unpredictability and can unexpectedly plan destructive changes because the model materializes only at apply time; CloudFormation provides a control plane and drift detection but stacks still require ordering. Crossplane runs as a Kubernetes operator with a controller, retries until promises are satisfied, exposes versioned promise state for observability, and demonstrates predictable, scalable maintenance of resources across environments.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 0:10What is Promise Theory?
- 0:52Orthogonality
- 1:08Terraform
- 2:49Cloudformation
- 4:41Crossplane at Scale
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