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• Crossplane manages resources outside of a Kubernetes cluster using APIs
• Crossplane has a high-fidelity provider section that allows for hundreds of configuration options
• Crossplane communicates with APIs using a two-way communication system
• Crossplane installs CRDs and controllers for groups of resources in Kubernetes clusters

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• Crossplane can manage any infrastructure in any environment.
• Crossplane represents cloud provider resources and infrastructure as objects in the Kubernetes API.
• Crossplane generates events that tell the story of the infrastructure.
• Crossplane uses the Kubernetes runtime, Kubernetes API Machinery, and the controller runtime to implement reconciliation of cloud provider resources.
• Crossplane is moving towards full graduation with the CNCF in early 2023.

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• Crossplane is a framework for building universal control planes
• It is highly extensible and allows users to manage any API out of the world
• Providers and configurations are the two sides of Crossplane
• Providers are used to build and manage cloud resources
• Configurations are used to compose resources from providers together and define control plans declarative APIs and abstractions
• The ecosystem is growing and more people are starting to use Crossplane