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• IAC eliminates human errors and reduces costs by automating infrastructure deployment and management
• Configuration drift can occur in manual deployment and management, which can jeopardize deployment cycles and increase project vulnerability
• Crossplane uses Kubernetes API and declarative approach to automate infrastructure deployment and management, ensuring consistency and alignment between developers and operations
• However, there are security risks associated with IAC, and bridging the gap between DevOps and SecOps can be a challenge
• Crossplane addresses these challenges by using Version Control configuration, providing visibility and applying guardrails and rules
• Crossplane can create infrastructure and policies using simple YAML files, such as EC2 instances and S3 buckets
• Composite resources can be used to create more complex infrastructure, such as EKS clusters
• Crossplane extends the functionality of Kubernetes clusters and provides self-service to developers