Like Peas And Carrots: Argo CD And Crossplane For Infrastructure Management
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 · on Wednesday, 2022-10-26· at 17:25· Portside Ballroom (Room 260)·
summary
Shows a concrete Argo CD + Crossplane setup that manages AWS infra: three Crossplane providers (aws, helm, kubernetes), reusable irsa composition to create IAM roles/policies and their bi‑directional references, and EKS cluster compositions that include critical add‑ons like Carpenter, AWS LB controller and External Secrets. Uses Argo CD for per‑cluster add‑on version control and Crossplane for IAM coordination, runs a composition per environment to limit blast radius, enables annotation tracking and resource exclusions, and reports stable operation after ~1 year while noting adoption and conditional‑creation limits.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:02Configuration Management
- 3:49Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
- 12:05EKS-IRSA Composition
- 13:03Managed Resources
- 14:09Crossplane vs. Argo CD for Addons
- 21:38Argo CD: Pruning
- 23:30Argo CD: Performance Tuning
- 24:05Argo CD: Resource Exclusions
- 26:10Argo CD: Health Checks
- 27:22Crossplane Challenges
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