Example Gitops with CUE for Crossplane and Kubernetes

Current folder structure:

• gitops is a folder for kubernetes configuration for ArgoCD
  • apps contains templates for ArgoCD applications for installing them into different clusters
  • bootstrap manages application bootsrap for particular cluster in ArgoCD
  • clusters manages different manifests for particular cluster (manifest application in ArgoCD)
• crossplane is a folder for crossplane configuration for Crossplane Controllers managed by ArgoCD
  • providers used for installing different providers for Crossplane
  • aws used for managing particular project in AWS
  • gcp used for managing particular project in GCP
  • vault used for managing particular Vault instance

Agenda

We have several projects:

• prod
• uat
• dev

where prod and uat are managed by one set of argocd/crossplane and dev by another set.

Direnv

To allow direnv to check changes in devShell we need to use this .envrc

watch_file ./nix/*
use flake