Recently, I had the opportunity to do a major Crossplane upgrade from v1.20.0 to v2.0.2 on a live production environment.

For those unfamiliar with Crossplane, it is an open-source platform engineering framework that extends Kubernetes into a universal control plane, enabling teams to manage cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes APIs. Through Compositions, developers can provision complex infrastructure services with a single custom resource instead of managing individual components such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM roles, and databases separately.

While the upgrade itself sounds straightforward, anyone who has worked with Crossplane knows that major version upgrades can be challenging.…