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Crossplane Documentation - v2.0

What's Crossplane?

What's New in v2?

Install Crossplane

Get Started With Composition

Get Started With Managed Resources

Get Started With Operations

Composite Resources

Composite Resource Definitions

Composition Revisions

Environment Configs

Managed Resources

Managed Resources

Managed Resource Definitions

Managed Resource Activation Policies

Cron Operations

Watch Operations

Crossplane Pods

Function Patch and Transform

Releasing Crossplane Extensions

Write a Composition Function in Go

Write a Composition Function in Python

Disabling Unused Managed Resources

Implementing safe-start in Providers

Import Existing Resources

Configuring Crossplane with Argo CD

Troubleshoot Crossplane

Upgrade Crossplane

Upgrade to Crossplane v2

Uninstall Crossplane

Install Crossplane from source code

Command Reference

Feature Lifecycle

Community Extension Projects

Contributing Guide

Crossplane Roadmap

Composition

This document is for an older version of Crossplane.

This document applies to Crossplane v2.0 and not to the latest release v2.1.

Build custom APIs by composing Kubernetes resources

Topics in this section:

Composite Resources - Custom APIs created by composing Kubernetes resources
Composite Resource Definitions - Define schemas for composite resources
Compositions - Define which resources to create and how
Composition Revisions - Manage changes to Compositions with revisions
Environment Configs - In-memory data stores for Compositions

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