Niklas Schuster
NTT DATA, Cloud Solution Architect
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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I started my way in the IT business in 2015 as a dual student in Software Engineering and since the very beginning I have consistently been involved in cloud projects on and around AWS. I joined NTT Data as a Senior Technical Consultant in the beginning of 2021 with a clear focus on cloud infrastructure and architecture. At NTT Data I work almost exclusively on AWS regardless of whether it's a customer projects or internal AWS topics. Therefore I can look back on a total of 7 years of experience working with AWS and in addition to that I am a AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate. And in case I am not working on AWS, then I mainly work on topics in the area of DevOps and everything that has anything to do with cloud and cloud native development.
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Extensive GitOps - How to extend GitOps across your AWS infrastructure with Argo CD and Crossplane
GitOps has become incresingly popular recently to manage services and continuously reconciling the desired state stored in Git to the actual state running in a live environment to eliminate the need for continuous deployment pipelines and to prevent drift. Especially when we talk about managing infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), as used in most projects, drift can become a serious issue over time. How to make sure that resources remain the same in the cloud as they are defined in code once provisioned? Being able to continuously reconcile and prevent drift in our infrastructure is a very valuable benefit.
So why have we only used GitOps for services? In this session we take a look at how we can use Crossplane and leverage Kubernetes as a control plane to manage both our services and AWS infrastructure to become 100% GitOps ready as we successfully did with one of our major automotive customers.
We will give an introduction to Crossplane and also show how an additional layer of abstraction can enable developers to easily claim AWS resources on the fly as they need them and do a demo how to spin up and integrate AWS infrastructure from small things like an S3 Bucket to even fully production ready EKS clusters.
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