Welcome

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Welcome to the Crossplane documentation. Crossplane is a control plane framework for platform engineering.

Using the documentation

Crossplane organizes its documentation into the following sections:

What’s Crossplane? introduces Crossplane and explains why you should use it.
What’s New in v2? highlights what’s changed in Crossplane v2.
Get Started explains how to install Crossplane and create a control plane.
Composition covers the key concepts of composition.
Operations covers the key concepts of operations.
Managed Resources covers the key concepts of managed resources.
Packages covers the key concepts of the Crossplane package manager.
Guides guide you through common use cases, like monitoring Crossplane or extending it by writing a composition function.
CLI Reference documents the crossplane command-line interface that you can use to configure a Crossplane control plane.
API Reference documents the APIs that you can use to configure a Crossplane control plane.