LABINTERMEDIATE

Package and Deploy Crossplane Compositions

Package your Crossplane compositions into distributable Configuration Packages and deploy them across environments using container registries.

120 minutes
platform-engineering/crossplane
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Lab Overview

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.

Prerequisites

Building Platform Abstractions with Crossplane Lab

Technologies Covered

crossplaneconfiguration-packagespackagingoci-registryplatform-distributionupbound-registrydeployment

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This lab is part of the Crossplane 101: Platform Engineering Fundamentals course

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