Crossview: Finally Seeing What’s Really Happening in Your Crossplane Control Plane

If you’ve ever worked with Crossplane, you probably recognize this situation:

You apply a claim.

Resources get created somewhere.

And then you’re left stitching together YAML, kubectl output, and mental models to understand what’s actually going on.

That gap is exactly why Crossview exists.

What is Crossview?

Crossview is an open‑source UI dashboard for Crossplane that helps you visualize, explore, and understand your Crossplane‑managed infrastructure. It provides focused tooling for Crossplane workflows instead of generic Kubernetes resources, letting you see the things that matter without piecing them together manually.

Key Features

Crossview already delivers significant capabilities out of the box:

• Real‑Time Resource Watching — Monitor any Kubernetes resource with live updates via Kubernetes informers and WebSockets.
• Multi‑Cluster Support — Manage and switch between multiple Kubernetes contexts seamlessly from a single interface.
• Resource Visualization — Browse and visualize Crossplane resources, including providers, XRDs, compositions, claims, and more.
• Resource Details — View comprehensive information like status conditions, metadata, events, and relationships for each resource.
• Authentication & Authorization — Support for OIDC and SAML authentication, integrating with identity providers such as Auth0, Okta, Azure AD, and others.
• High‑Performance Backend — Built with Go using the Gin framework for optimal performance and efficient API interactions.

Crossview already gives you a true visual control plane experience tailored for Crossplane — so you don’t have to translate mental models into YAML every time you want to answer a question about infrastructure state.

Why We Built It

Crossplane is powerful, but its abstraction can make day‑to‑day operations harder than they should be.

Simple questions like:

• Why is this composite not ready?
• Which managed resource failed?
• What does this claim actually create?

often require jumping between multiple commands and outputs.

Crossview reduces that cognitive load and makes the control plane easier to operate and reason about.

Who Is It For?

Crossview is useful for:

• Platform engineers running Crossplane in production
• Teams onboarding users to platforms built on Crossplane
• Anyone who wants better visibility into Crossplane‑managed infrastructure

If you’ve ever felt blind while debugging Crossplane, Crossview is built for you.

Open Source and Community‑Driven

Crossview is fully open source, and community feedback plays a big role in shaping the project.

• GitHub: https://github.com/corpobit/crossview
• Docs and Helm charts are available via the repo and Artifact Hub.

Feedback, issues, and contributions are all welcome.

Final Thoughts

The goal of Crossview is simple: make Crossplane infrastructure visible, understandable, and easier to operate. It already ships with real‑time watching, multi‑cluster support, rich resource details, and modern authentication integrations — giving you a dashboard that truly complements CLI workflows.

If you’re using Crossplane, I’d love to hear:

• What’s the hardest part to debug today?
• What visibility do you wish you had?

Let’s improve the Crossplane experience together.