Managed Resources on Crossplane

Managed Resources

A managed resource (MR) represents an external service in a Provider. When users create a new managed resource, the Provider reacts by creating an external resource inside the Provider’s environment. Every external service managed by Crossplane maps to a managed resource.

Note

Crossplane calls the object inside Kubernetes a managed resource and the external object inside the Provider an external resource.

Examples of managed resources include:

Usages

A Usage indicates a resource is in use. Two main use cases for Usages are as follows:

Protecting a resource from accidental deletion.
Deletion ordering by ensuring that a resource isn’t deleted before the deletion of its dependent resources.

See the section Usage for Deletion Protection for the first use case and the section Usage for Deletion Ordering for the second one.

Enable usages

Usages are a beta feature. Beta features are enabled by default.