{"product_id":"platform-engineering-with-crossplane-eira-veyson-9798274519359","title":"Platform Engineering with Crossplane: BUILD SELF-SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE: Reduce DevOps Toil with Internal Developer Platforms. Create Custom APIs, Aut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuild a self-service platform that developers trust using Crossplane v2, from first install to audited operations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany teams struggle with scattered scripts, slow tickets, and fragile handoffs. This book turns platform engineering into a concrete practice by treating infrastructure and service capabilities as stable APIs. You get clear contracts for developers, continuous reconciliation that fixes drift, and guardrails that satisfy auditors without slowing delivery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep by step, you install Crossplane, design opinionated platform APIs with XRDs and Compositions, wire identity per cloud with least privilege, ship OCI packages through GitOps, integrate a portal, and operate at scale with metrics, runbooks, and SLOs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstall Crossplane v2 cleanly and pick minimal provider families to keep CRDs lean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign reliable platform APIs with XRD schemas, defaults, validation, and descriptions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor composition pipelines using patch and transform, Go templating, and function modules\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePackage and distribute configurations and functions as OCI artifacts with signing and SBOMs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet up secure cloud auth, IRSA on AWS, Workload Identity on GCP and Azure federated credentials\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeliver secrets and connection details safely with StoreConfig targets and External Secrets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake GitOps work with Crossplane using Argo CD or Flux, waves, health checks, and readiness gates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpose resources and events in a Backstage portal, generate claims with Software Templates, and enforce permissions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eObserve controllers with actionable metrics, handle failure modes, and automate alerts and remediation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScale tenancy with namespaced managed resources, ProviderConfig per team, and multi control planes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTest deeply with crossplane render, KUTTL or Chainsaw, and add conformance checks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMigrate safely, v1 to v2 pipelines, adopt existing resources, and map Terraform modules to composites\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a code-heavy guide with working YAML, Shell, HCL, JSON, and CI examples that you can drop into repos to stand up real environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrab your copy today and ship a platform that reduces toil, increases flow, and stands up to audits.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eira Veyson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798274519359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Eira Veyson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50664641888511,"sku":"9798274519359","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_516dfc2d-c270-43cf-a96d-87661587c803.jpg?v=1792008482","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/platform-engineering-with-crossplane-eira-veyson-9798274519359","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}