Provisioning an AKS Cluster with Crossplane | GitOps-Driven Infrastructure on Azure

Description

In this video, you'll learn how to use Crossplane to provision a fully functional Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster — entirely through Kubernetes manifests, without the Azure portal or Terraform. We cover the full end-to-end workflow: installing Crossplane on a local Kubernetes cluster using Helm, setting up the Azure provider family, configuring credentials with a Service Principal and Kubernetes Secret, creating a Resource Group, Virtual Network, and Subnets, deploying the AKS cluster as a Crossplane managed resource, and connecting to the cluster using the Azure CLI. By the end of this guide, you'll understand how Crossplane enables a GitOps approach to cloud infrastructure — where all your resources are declared in Git, reconciled automatically, and managed with the same kubectl workflow as your applications.