Crossplane Infrastructure Management

Use this skill when interacting with cloud resources managed via Crossplane.

Resource Lifecycle

1. •Claims: Interact with the high-level Claim resources first.
2. •Managed Resources: Check the underlying cloud resources (e.g., Bucket.s3.aws.upbound.io) for provider-specific errors.
3. •Reconciliation: Monitor the SYNCED and READY status.
   powershell

   kubectl get managed
   kubectl get claim
   

Rules for New Infrastructure

• •Region Consistency: Default to us-west-2 as defined in regional-defaults.
• •Secret Management: Ensure matching ExternalSecret or Secret resources are provisioned for cross-cluster connectivity.
• •Provider Families: Group provider configurations in individual files (e.g., provider-aws-s3.yaml).

Debugging

If a resource is stuck in READY: False:

1. •Describe the Resource: Look for the Events section which often contains the cloud provider's error message.
   powershell

   kubectl describe <kind> <name>
   

2. •Check Provider Logs: Inspect the logs of the specific Crossplane provider pod in the crossplane-system namespace.