Deploying Distributed AI Services on Crossplane-Controlled Clusters

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To deploy distributed AI services on clusters controlled by Crossplane, you would follow a multi-step process that involves installing Crossplane, setting up your cloud environment, defining your resource classes for different services, and writing your cloud-native applications that utilize these services.

Crossplane acts as an add-on layer to your Kubernetes clusters, allowing you to manage your infrastructure using kubectl in a Kubernetes-native way. You define the desired state of your cloud resources, and Crossplane takes care of provisioning and managing those resources in your cloud provider of choice.

Below is a Python program using Pulumi to install Crossplane on a Kubernetes cluster, set up a Crossplane provider for a specific cloud (AWS in this example), and create a managed Kubernetes cluster via Crossplane. Please note that Pulumi also leverages your existing Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and custom resource definitions.

Before diving into the code, it’s important to understand the Pulumi components we will use:

1. **Kubernetes Provider**: This enables Pulumi to interact with your Kubernetes cluster.
2. **Crossplane Provider**: Crossplane uses custom resource definitions (CRDs) to manage cloud resources across multiple cloud providers from Kubernetes. You'll install Crossplane into your Kubernetes cluster and then add the specific provider plugin (AWS in this case).
3. **Kubernetes Cluster**: We’ll use an AWS-managed Kubernetes cluster (Amazon EKS) as an example.
4. **Crossplane AWS Provider**: This component of Crossplane allows you to manage AWS resources.
5. **ResourceClass**: These are the custom resources that define how Crossplane should provision resources.
6. **AI Service Manifests**: These would be your Kubernetes manifests defining the AI services you want to deploy, which we will simulate with placeholder manifests.

Here is the program:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_kubernetes as k8s
from pulumi_kubernetes.helm.v3 import Chart, ChartOpts
from pulumi_kubernetes.yaml import ConfigFile

# Use the installed Pulumi CLI to setup the Kubernetes provider.
kubeconfig = pulumi.Config("kubernetes").require("kubeconfig")
k8s_provider = k8s.Provider("k8s-provider", kubeconfig=kubeconfig)

# Install Crossplane using the Helm Chart.
crossplane_chart = Chart(
    "crossplane",
    ChartOpts(
        chart="crossplane-stable/crossplane",
        version="1.5.0",  # use the appropriate version
        namespace="crossplane-system",
        fetch_opts=k8s.helm.v3.FetchOpts(
            repo="https://charts.crossplane.io/stable"
        ),
    ),
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=k8s_provider)
)

# Install the AWS provider for Crossplane.
aws_provider_yaml = """
apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
kind: Provider
metadata:
  name: provider-aws
spec:
  package: crossplane/provider-aws:V1.5.0  # specify the correct version
"""

aws_provider = ConfigFile(
    "aws-provider",
    file=aws_provider_yaml,
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=k8s_provider, depends_on=[crossplane_chart])
)

# Define a ResourceClass for an AWS managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS)
eks_cluster_class_yaml = """
apiVersion: eks.aws.crossplane.io/v1alpha1
kind: ClusterClass
metadata:
  name: aws-cluster-class
specTemplate:
  writeConnectionSecretsToNamespace: crossplane-system
  region: us-west-2
  providerRef:
    name: aws-provider
  reclaimPolicy: Delete
"""

eks_cluster_class = ConfigFile(
    "eks-cluster-class",
    file=eks_cluster_class_yaml,
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=k8s_provider, depends_on=[aws_provider])
)

# Placeholder for AI service manifests
# Here you would define your AI services that consume the cloud resources
# managed by Crossplane, e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch or custom AI applications.

# For example, a TensorFlow job may look like:
ai_service_manifest = """
apiVersion: tensorflow.org/v1
kind: TensorFlowJob
metadata:
  name: my-ai-job
spec:
  # Your TensorFlow job specs
"""

# Deploy AI service using Pulumi Kubernetes `ConfigFile` resource
ai_service = ConfigFile(
    "ai-service",
    file=ai_service_manifest,
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=k8s_provider)
)

# Normally, here we would export any outputs you need, such as Kubernetes cluster endpoint, AI service URLs, etc.
# pulumi.export('cluster_endpoint', eks_cluster.endpoint) # This is an example endpoint export
```

Let's break it down:

- We start by defining the required providers (Kubernetes and Crossplane Providers).
- We then use a Helm chart to install Crossplane into the Kubernetes cluster.
- Next, we define an AWS provider for Crossplane so it can manage AWS resources.
- We create a `ClusterClass` resource that specifies how an AWS EKS cluster should be provisioned.
- Lastly, we have a placeholder for the AI service manifests. Here you will define your actual AI jobs or services.

Keep in mind this program assumes you have Pulumi CLI and kubectl configured for your appropriate cloud provider and cluster.

Remember, a real-world deployment would require additional considerations regarding security, networking, scaling, and resiliency. You will need to adapt and extend this program to fit your specific use case.