Cloud Resources orchestrated by Crossplane

Crossplane addon

  1. $ vela addon enable crossplane

Enable a Crossplane Provider addon

KubeVela can support following cloud providers by enabling the Crossplane provider addons.

  1. $ vela addon list | grep crossplane-
  2. crossplane-aws              KubeVela    Kubernetes Crossplane Controller for AWS                                                                [0.0.1]                         enabled (1.0.0)                         enabled (1.0.1)

To enable one of them, use the following command:

  1. $ vela addon enable crossplane-xxx

You can also disable, upgrade, check status of an addon by command vela addon.

Authenticate Crossplane Provider

Apply the application below. Let’s use aws in this example, you can get AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY per aws secret docs.

  1. apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
  2. kind: Application
  3. metadata:
  4.   name: aws
  5.   namespace: vela-system
  6. spec:
  7.   components:
  8.     - name: aws
  9.       type: crossplane-aws
  10.       properties:
  11.         name: aws
  12.         AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: xxx
  13.         AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: yyy

Provision cloud resources

After a Crossplane provider is authenticated, you can provision and/or consume cloud resources.