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Crossplane — K8s-Native IaC

01. 11. 2022 Updated: 27. 03. 2026 1 min read intermediate
This article was published in 2022. Some information may be outdated.

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Crossplane — K8s-Native IaC

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Infrastructure as Kubernetes resources. Crossplane compositions and claims.

Principle

Crossplane extends the Kubernetes API with cloud resources. Infrastructure = kubectl apply.

Example

apiVersion: database.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1
kind: RDSInstance
metadata:
  name: my-database
spec:
  forProvider:
    region: eu-central-1
    dbInstanceClass: db.t3.micro
    engine: postgres
    engineVersion: "16"
    masterUsername: admin
    allocatedStorage: 20

Compositions

Compositions = abstractions over cloud resources. The team defines a ‘Database’ claim and Crossplane creates the RDS, Security Group, Subnet Group.

Summary

Crossplane is ideal if you want a single control plane (K8s) for both applications and infrastructure.

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