Self-Service Provisioning with the Crossplane Service Broker

The Crossplane Service Broker exposes Crossplane primitives via the Open Service Broker API. Tobias will introduce the concepts behind the Crossplane Service Broker and demonstrate to the audience how it all works together. By leveraging the Open Service Broker API while coupling it with the powerful concept of Crossplane Compositions it's very easy to enable users of a platform which exposes Open Service Broker API integration (like Kubernetes Service Catalog or Cloudfoundry) to provision services fully automated. In a demonstration a real use case will be shown how a Redis service can be provisioned using the Open Service Broker API, leveraging the Crossplane Compositions and the Helm provider.

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1. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   Tobias Brunner
   Crossplane Service
   Broker
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2. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   VSHN operates services all around the world
   Usually enhanced security and in regulated environments
   Project Syn ( ) and Crossplane: next-gen services
   o ering
   Introduction
   syn.tools
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3. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   First implementation with Crossplane for biggest Swiss
   telecommunication company Swisscom
   O ering Redis and MariaDB Galera as self-service
   Managed Service on Kubernetes
   Consumed by applications running in Cloudfoundry
   Planned: Extend to Kubernetes with Service Catalog
   Own infrastructure and datacenter (Private Cloud)
   Project "Marketplace"
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4. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   Bring Open Service
   Broker API and
   Crossplane together
   XRD ⇒ Service O ering
   Composition ⇒ Service
   Plan
   XR ⇒ Service Instance
   Crossplane Service Broker
   CompositeResourceDefinition
   redisinstances.syn.tools
   Composition
   redis-small
   API Definition
   Creates
   RedisInstance
   redis1
   Service Plan Service Instance
   Helm Release
   redis1
   Open
   Service
   Broker
   API
   Service
   Consumer
   Provision
   Deprovision
   Service Offering
   Concept
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5. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   Example with Redis
   Three local k3d clusters
   Represents real-world
   use-case
   One control-plane, one or
   more consumer and
   service clusters
   Try yourself:
   Open Service Broker API
   "Service Consumer" / appc-consumer1
   Kubernetes Service Catalog (SVCAT)
   Helm
   "Control Plane" / appc-control
   Crossplane & Crossplane Service Broker
   "Service Cluster" / appc-service1
   Service deployments (via Helm)
   Service
   Provisioning
   and
   Binding
   Developer
   Live Demo
   vs.hn/appcatdemo
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6. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   The Crossplane Service Broker is Open Source:
   It’s still in early stages, but already used in production
   Roadmap:
   Bearer token authentication
   Plan ltering on broker side
   Async bindings
   Plan upgrades
   Open Source
   github.com/vshn/crossplane-service-broker
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7. VSHN – The DevOps Company
   Tobias Brunner – –
   VSHN AG – Neugasse 10 – CH-8005 Zürich – +41 44 545 53 00 – –
   Thanks!
   tobias.brunner@vshn.ch @tobruzh
   vshn.ch info@vshn.ch
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