Crossplane / Built in & next

Bring your platform APIs into view.

Crossplane UI is built into the Lumen workspace. Keep the abstractions your teams use connected to Kubernetes context, then follow our direction toward richer composition authoring and reusable platform workflows.

01 / Crossplane in the workspace

Understand the abstraction and the system behind it.

01Available

Built-in Crossplane UI

Work with Crossplane in the same Kubernetes environment as your resources, events and configuration. Keep investigation close to the platform team’s operating context.

02Exploring

Composition authoring

Our future direction includes reusable templates, schema-aware editing and validation for platform APIs. This extends the built-in UI; it is a separate capability from current resource visibility.

02 / Platform API context

Keep the resource relationships understandable.

Crossplane defines platform APIs through composite resource schemas and compositions. An effective engineering workspace should make it easier to reason about those definitions and the resources they compose.

Crossplane resource modelILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW
  1. 01

    API definition

    The composite resource definition describes the platform API and its schema.

  2. 02

    Composition

    The composition describes the resources and configuration that implement that API.

  3. 03

    Live resources

    The resulting objects and their conditions provide evidence of what the platform is doing.

Illustrative Crossplane model. Available UI detail depends on the installed Crossplane resources and Lumen release.

03 / Future authoring workflows

Make proven patterns easier to reuse.

  1. 01

    Reusable platform patterns

    Explore templates for the capabilities application teams repeatedly need, with explicit inputs, ownership and operating assumptions.

  2. 02

    Schema & revision context

    Work toward schema-aware editing and a clearer view of composition revisions and their effect on platform APIs.

  3. 03

    Preview & validate

    Explore render and validation workflows so changes can be examined before they reach a shared environment.

  4. 04

    Review through GitOps

    Connect authoring to repository review and planned Flux and Argo CD context rather than separating infrastructure changes from delivery.

Build around your platform

Bring your Crossplane workflow.

Show us the platform APIs your teams use and the composition work you want to improve. Help shape the next authoring and investigation capabilities.