Iam

Crossplane is useless on its own. To orchestrate AWS, Azure, or GCP, we must install Providers. In this episode, we install the official Upbound AWS Provider, configure Kubernetes Secrets to store our IAM credentials, and bind them to a ProviderConfig.

Terraform itself cannot create an AWS EC2 instance. It relies on ‘Providers’ (plugins) to translate HCL code into cloud-specific API calls. In this episode, we connect Terraform to AWS and establish a secure, production-grade authentication mechanism.