Crossplane 2XX — Overview
Choose-your-own-adventure tasks for pairs who finished Crossplane 101. Mix of guided walkthroughs and open-ended explorations — pick whichever module matches what you want to learn next.
Available modules
| Module | Shape | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Crossplane Operations | open-ended pointers | Imperative pipelines: Operation (one-shot), CronOperation (scheduled), WatchOperation (event-driven). When the declarative loop isn't the right tool — backups, rotations, fan-outs, drift detection. |
| (Guided) Use the Crossplane CLI | guided, ⏱️ 18m | Preview, trace, and validate Compositions with the crossplane binary — render, beta trace, beta validate, plus pointers at the xpkg authoring commands. |
| Provider setup pattern | reference | The shape every Provider follows: install + ProviderConfig + MR. Covers ClusterProviderConfig vs ProviderConfig, Secret vs cloud-native auth, version pinning, and provider families. Read before 3xx cloud-provider modules. |
More tasks land here as they're authored. Section roadmap (per the style guide — workshop's living shape doc): extra providers, contrib composition functions, OCI publishing, status functions, and adoption of existing in-cluster resources via provider-kubernetes (tracked in issue #64).