provider-kubernetes is a Crossplane Provider that enables deployment and management of arbitrary Kubernetes objects on clusters typically provisioned by Crossplane:

• A Provider resource type that only points to a credentials Secret.
• An Object resource type that is to manage Kubernetes Objects.
• A managed resource controller that reconciles Object typed resources and manages arbitrary Kubernetes Objects.

If you would like to install provider-kubernetes without modifications, you may do so using the Crossplane CLI in a Kubernetes cluster where Crossplane is installed:

kubectl crossplane install provider crossplanecontrib/provider-kubernetes:main

You may also manually install provider-kubernetes by creating a Provider directly:

apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
kind: Provider
metadata:
  name: provider-kubernetes
spec:
  package: "crossplanecontrib/provider-kubernetes:main"

See the header of go.mod for the minimum supported version of Go.

Start a local development environment with Kind where crossplane is installed:

make
make local-dev

Now you can either run the controller locally or in-cluster.

Run controller locally against the cluster:

make run

Since the controller is running outside the Kind cluster, you need to make the API server accessible to the controller. You can do this by running a proxy:

# on a separate terminal
sudo kubectl proxy --port=8081

See below for how to properly setup the RBAC for the locally running controller.

Run controller in-cluster:

make local-deploy

See below for how to properly setup the RBAC for the locally running controller.

1. Prepare provider config for the local cluster:

2. If provider kubernetes running in the cluster (e.g. provider installed with crossplane or using make local-deploy):

   SA=$(kubectl -n crossplane-system get sa -o name | grep provider-kubernetes | sed -e 's|serviceaccount\/|crossplane-system:|g')
   kubectl create clusterrolebinding provider-kubernetes-admin-binding --clusterrole cluster-admin --serviceaccount="${SA}"
   kubectl apply -f examples/provider/config-in-cluster.yaml
   

3. If provider kubernetes running outside the cluster (e.g. running locally with make run)

   KUBECONFIG=$(kind get kubeconfig --name local-dev | sed -e 's|server:\s*.*$|server: http://localhost:8081|g')
   kubectl -n crossplane-system create secret generic cluster-config --from-literal=kubeconfig="${KUBECONFIG}"
   kubectl apply -f examples/provider/config.yaml
   

4. Now you can create Object resources with provider reference, see sample object.yaml.

   kubectl create -f examples/object/object.yaml
   

To delete the local kind cluster:

make controlplane.down