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.

• Composition covers the key concepts of composition.

• Operations covers the key concepts of operations.

• Managed Resources covers the key concepts of managed resources.

• Packages covers the key concepts of the Crossplane package manager.

• 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.