Infrastructure as API: The Secret Ingredient to Your Platform Engineering Efforts

In this 31-minute DevConf talk, explore the paradigm shift from Infrastructure as Code to Infrastructure as Data with speaker Utkarsh Mishra. Discover how CNCF tool Crossplane can be leveraged to build control planes and APIs that power Internal Developer Platforms across multiple teams. Learn about Crossplane's advantages as a Platform Orchestrator compared to traditional IAC tools like Terraform, and its superior integration with other CNCF tools including ArgoCD for GitOps and Backstage for Platform Engineering. Gain insights from Utkarsh's two years of practical experience implementing Crossplane across multiple projects, recent developments in the Crossplane project, and challenges when migrating existing infrastructure to Crossplane management.