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Crossplane Learning Roadmap

Kubernetes-native infrastructure provisioning — control planes for your cloud resources.

Estimated time:3–5 weeks

1🌱

Phase 1 — Fundamentals

Crossplane architecture & control plane concept

Providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Managed resources vs. composite resources

Installing providers & configuring credentials

2🧩

CompositeResourceDefinitions (XRDs)

Compositions (patch-and-transform)

Composition functions

Claims vs. composite resources

3🏗️

Building self-service infra APIs for teams

Environment configs

Package management (Configuration/Provider packages)

GitOps with Crossplane (ArgoCD/FluxCD)

4🔐

advanced

RBAC for composite resource access

Drift detection & reconciliation loops

Multi-cloud abstraction strategy

Comparing Crossplane vs. Terraform operators

Begin with interview questions to assess your current level.