A Managed Resource (MR) is the foundational building block of Crossplane. It is a 1-to-1 representation of a physical cloud object (like an S3 Bucket or an RDS Instance) stored as a Custom Resource in Kubernetes. In this episode, we provision our first AWS resource directly via kubectl.
Crossplane is useless on its own. To orchestrate AWS, Azure, or GCP, we must install Providers. In this episode, we install the official Upbound AWS Provider, configure Kubernetes Secrets to store our IAM credentials, and bind them to a ProviderConfig.
In Terraform, you write declarative configuration blocks. In Pulumi, you instantiate Object-Oriented classes. This episode explores how to declare complex resources like an AWS VPC, Security Group, and EC2 instance using pure TypeScript, while leveraging your IDE’s IntelliSense for maximum productivity.
It is time to leave YAML behind. In this episode, we will install the Pulumi CLI, scaffold a brand new TypeScript project, and understand the anatomy of the generated files. You will learn how Pulumi securely integrates with your cloud provider credentials.
Modules are the functions of the Terraform ecosystem. In this episode, we will build a reusable AWS VPC module from scratch, define explicit inputs and outputs, and consume it from a separate Root Module. Stop copy-pasting code and start building a self-service infrastructure catalog.
Not everything in your cloud is managed by Terraform. In this episode, you will learn how to use the ‘data’ block to interrogate the AWS API. Fetch the latest Ubuntu AMI ID dynamically, or retrieve a VPC ID created by the Networking team, ensuring your code remains hardcode-free.
It is time to build real infrastructure. In this episode, we will declare an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and a Subnet. You will learn how Terraform intelligently determines the correct order of creation using the Dependency Graph, preventing race conditions.
Terraform itself cannot create an AWS EC2 instance. It relies on ‘Providers’ (plugins) to translate HCL code into cloud-specific API calls. In this episode, we connect Terraform to AWS and establish a secure, production-grade authentication mechanism.
