Crossplane Black Boxes for Developer Self-Service

Dev.to•Tue, Oct 13, 2026, 10:19 AM•2 min read

TL;DR. Developers create cloud resources and IAM grants themselves by committing a small namespaced YAML next to their app. Each kind is a Crossplane XRD (a "black box"): the schema is the whole contract, the composition behind it belongs to the platform team, and the controls that matter (allo...

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