Hello Platform Engineers! I’m relatively new to platform engineering, and I realised I still have a lot of things I don’t know! One specific thing I’m curious about is the design patterns/conventions/common solutions for using Kubernetes as a control plane for running multicloud operations. As an example, say I create an operator that takes care of spinning up a new instance of some AWS service, and I have a workload running in GCP that I want to bind to the AWS service, how do I do that? What are the common ways teams solve this? In addition, how do I make the Kubernetes operator monitor the status of the AWS service instance? Is that through some webhook mechanism, a message broker, or is that dependent on how the specific AWS service do pub/sub?

Anthos

So a service mesh then? I have limited experience with service meshes, but I think Istio uses mTLS for encryption. Is that the same for Anthos?

Crossplane is your friend 😄 for infra, argocd for apps

I should probably give Crossplane another go. I tried it not too long ago and got discouraged with how cumbersome the “hello world” setup is.

Antos Service Mesh are managed Istio

I see. Cool. Thanks. So I guess if I’m interested in how that actually works, I have to look into the Istio architecture.