service-provider-crossplane

About this project

Service provider Crossplane manages the lifecycle of Crossplane instances and Crossplane providers in a ManagedControlPlane.

🏗️ Installation of the Service Provider Crossplane

Local Development

To run the service-provider-crossplane locally, you need to first bootstrap an openMCP environment by using openmcp-operator and cluster-provider-kind. A comprehensive guide will follow soon.

For current testing reasons, the service-provider-crossplane needs to run in the cluster. To run the latest version of your changes in your local environment, you need to run:

task build:img:build

This will build the image of the service-provider-crossplane locally and puts it into your local Docker registry.

docker images ghcr.io/openmcp-project/images/service-provider-crossplane

You can then apply the ServiceProvider resource to your openMCP Platform cluster:

apiVersion: openmcp.cloud/v1alpha1
kind: ServiceProvider
metadata:
  name: crossplane
spec:
  image: ghcr.io/openmcp-project/images/service-provider-crossplane:... # latest local docker image build

OpenMCP Landscape

When you already have an openMCP environment set up, you can deploy the service-provider-crossplane by applying the following manifest:

apiVersion: openmcp.cloud/v1alpha1
kind: ServiceProvider
metadata:
  name: crossplane
spec:
  image: ghcr.io/openmcp-project/images/service-provider-crossplane:<latest-version> # latest upstream version

📖 Usage

Configure a ProviderConfig

A ProviderConfig is an API where you can configure the installation of a Crossplane instance in your ManagedControlPlane.

apiVersion: crossplane.services.openmcp.cloud/v1alpha1
kind: ProviderConfig
metadata:
  name: default
spec:
  chart:
    repository: "https://charts.crossplane.io/stable"
    name: crossplane
    availableVersions:
      - v1.20.0
      - v1.19.0
  availableProviders:
    - name: provider-kubernetes
      package: xpkg.upbound.io/upbound/provider-kubernetes
      versions:
        - v0.16.0

Install a Crossplane instance

apiVersion: crossplane.services.openmcp.cloud/v1alpha1
kind: Crossplane
metadata:
  name: crossplane-sample
  namespace: default
spec:
  version: v1.20.0
  providers:
    - name: provider-kubernetes
      version: v0.16.0

🧑‍💻 Development

Building the binary locally

To build the binary locally, you can use the following command:

task build

Build the image locally

To build the image locally, you can use the following command:

task build:img:build

Run unit tests locally

To run the unit tests locally, you can use the following command:

task test

Generating the CRDs, DeepCopy functions etc.

To generate the CRDs, DeepCopy functions, and other boilerplate code, you can use the following command:

task generate

❤️ Support, Feedback, Contributing

This project is open to feature requests/suggestions, bug reports etc. via GitHub issues. Contribution and feedback are encouraged and always welcome. For more information about how to contribute, the project structure, as well as additional contribution information, see our Contribution Guidelines.

🔐 Security / Disclosure

If you find any bug that may be a security problem, please follow our instructions at in our security policy on how to report it. Please do not create GitHub issues for security-related doubts or problems.

🤝 Code of Conduct

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone. By participating in this project, you agree to abide by its Code of Conduct at all times.

📋 Licensing

Copyright 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company and service-provider-crossplane contributors. Please see our LICENSE for copyright and license information. Detailed information including third-party components and their licensing/copyright information is available via the REUSE tool.

"Crossplane" is a registered trademark of the Linux Foundation.