This post explores what a future of shipping infrastructure alongside software may look like by detailing where we are today, and evaluating how the delivery of software has evolved over time. If you just want the big ideas, skip to the final section: A New Kind of Software Marketplace. Almost all software depends on infrastructure. Installation documentation typically has a section detailing how to run with your favorite cloud provider managed services, and, if you’re lucky, may even inclu...| danielmangum.com
Sometimes I hear folks in the Crossplane community ask if they can just use Helm instead of opting into our package manager. The technical answer to this question is “yes”, but it typically represents a misinterpretation of what Crossplane is providing in a Kubernetes cluster. That being said, I completely understand why someone would ask this question, and quite frankly, I think the confusion is our fault. In Crossplane and across the Kubernetes community we lean in heavily to the idea t...| danielmangum.com