This document is for a preview version of Crossplane.

This document applies to Crossplane v2.0-preview and not to the latest release v1.19.

Don't use Crossplane v2.0-preview in production.

Welcome to the Crossplane documentation. Crossplane is a control plane framework for platform engineering.

Using the documentation

Crossplane organizes its documentation into the following sections:

  • What’s Crossplane? introduces Crossplane and explains why you should use it.

  • What’s New in v2? highlights what’s changed in Crossplane v2.

  • Get Started explains how to install Crossplane and create a control plane.

  • Concepts introduces Crossplane’s key concepts.

  • Guides guide you through common use cases, like monitoring Crossplane or extending it by writing a composition function.

  • CLI Reference documents the crossplane command-line interface that you can use to configure a Crossplane control plane.

  • API Reference documents the APIs that you can use to configure a Crossplane control plane.