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Crossview Features & Capabilities

Core Features

📊 Dashboard

  • Overview Metrics - Quick view of resource counts and health status
  • Health Monitoring - Real-time status of Crossplane resources
  • Widget-Based Layout - Customizable dashboard widgets
  • Resource Counts - Track Claims, XRDs, Compositions, and Providers

🔍 Resource Management

  • Advanced Search - Search across all resource types and namespaces
  • Resource Browser - Navigate resources by type, namespace, or label
  • Resource Details - Comprehensive view of resource specifications
  • YAML Editor - View and understand resource definitions
  • Resource Relations - Visualize relationships between resources

Global Search

📦 Crossplane-Specific Features

  • Claims Management - View and manage Crossplane Claims
  • Composite Resources - Monitor Composite Resources (XRs)
  • Compositions - Browse and understand Composition definitions
  • XRD Browser - Explore Composite Resource Definitions
  • Provider Status - Monitor Crossplane Provider health

Composition Resources

🔐 Security & Access

  • User Authentication - Secure login system
  • Authentication Modes - Session (default), header (trust proxy identity), or none (development)
  • Session Management - PostgreSQL-backed sessions (session mode only)
  • SSO Support - Single Sign-On via OIDC or SAML (session mode)
  • Header Auth - Integrate with OAuth2 Proxy, Ingress auth, or other proxies that set identity headers
  • RBAC Integration - Uses Kubernetes RBAC for resource access

🎨 User Experience

  • Modern UI - Built with React and Chakra UI
  • Responsive Design - Works on desktop and tablet
  • Dark Mode - Theme customization
  • Fast Navigation - Optimized for large resource sets

Use Cases

Infrastructure Teams

  • Monitor infrastructure-as-code deployments
  • Track resource health across environments
  • Debug Crossplane resource issues
  • Audit infrastructure changes

Platform Engineers

  • Manage Crossplane Compositions
  • Monitor Provider status
  • Validate resource configurations
  • Onboard new team members

DevOps Teams

  • Search and filter resources quickly
  • Understand resource relationships
  • Troubleshoot deployment issues
  • Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters

Technical Capabilities

Multi-Cluster Support

  • Connect to multiple Kubernetes contexts
  • Switch between clusters seamlessly
  • Context-aware resource browsing

Performance

  • Paginated resource lists
  • Efficient API calls
  • Client-side caching
  • Optimized for large-scale deployments

Integration

  • Kubernetes-native (uses service accounts)
  • Helm chart available
  • Docker image ready
  • RESTful API for automation

What Crossview Does NOT Do

  • Resource Modification - Read-only dashboard (for safety)
  • Resource Creation - Use kubectl or GitOps for creating resources
  • Policy Enforcement - Use Crossplane policies for that
  • CI/CD Integration - Focuses on visualization and monitoring

Comparison with Other Tools

vs kubectl

  • Visual Interface - No need to remember kubectl commands
  • Crossplane-Focused - Optimized for Crossplane resources
  • Search - Advanced filtering and search capabilities
  • Relationships - Visual resource relationship mapping

vs Kubernetes Dashboard

  • Crossplane-Specific - Built for Crossplane workflows
  • Resource Relations - Understand Crossplane resource hierarchy
  • Composition View - Specialized views for Compositions and Claims
  • Provider Monitoring - Track Crossplane Provider status