What if you could just spin up a temporary cluster to test your application and set it to delete it after a certain time period automatically, all of that using a custom resource? That’s what we are going to talk about in this blog post - How to Create Ephemeral Environments using Crossplane and ArgoCD?

Introduction

What if I wanted to create a throwaway cluster to test my application? Now, usually I prefer to test the cluster in my local minikube cluster but when you are talking about big applications, you have cloud provider specific Ingresses, storage classes etc., and you end up creating a cluster to test your changes because you want to make sure nothing breaks when you deploy this in production (on the same cloud provider).

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