Package and Deploy Crossplane Compositions

This hands-on lab teaches you to package and distribute Crossplane platform abstractions using Configuration Packages.

You'll learn to:

• Create proper package directory structure with XRD and Composition files
• Understand Configuration Package contents vs runtime configuration
• Create crossplane.yaml metadata with provider dependencies
• Build OCI-compliant packages using Crossplane CLI
• Create GitHub Personal Access Token with write:packages scope
• Authenticate and push packages to GitHub Container Registry
• Extract and verify package contents
• Understand how Crossplane combines resources into package.yaml
• Deploy packages to fresh Kubernetes clusters
• Validate package installations and resource provisioning

This lab demonstrates real-world platform distribution patterns and prepares you for enterprise-scale platform management.