Backend-First IDP: A Production Roadmap With Argo CD, Crossplane, an...
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Claims a backend-first IDP that uses Argo CD + Crossplane + OPA as the authoritative core, validated on a multi-tenant environment with 100+ services; demo shows Git-as-single-source, Argo syncing CRDs to Crossplane and OPA rejecting unsafe changes. Result: infrastructure request lead time drops from days to minutes and GitOps drift incidents fall ~70%. The demo labs run end-to-end, policies block public buckets and enforce size limits, and the portal becomes a read-only lens.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:29Portal illusion in DevOps
- 5:40IDP failure traps
- 8:31Backend-first IDP with Argo CD, Crossplane, OPA
- 10:17UI failure breaks workflow
- 11:41Request flow in backend-first IDP
- 13:07Live demo setup
- 15:17Demo with Argo CD and Crossplane
- 18:23OPA governance in demo
- 19:47Summary
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