Part 1 — Crossplane on Kubernetes

Part 1 introduces Crossplane on top of Kubernetes and sets up the mental model the rest of the course builds on: Rules → Parser → Composer → Pico (from the Pico course) mapped onto Composition → Composite Resource → Managed Resource on a Kubernetes control plane.

Lessons

Lessons for Part 1 are authored in the same lesson layout as the Pico reference course. See the Pico Introduction lesson for the canonical page structure (index, exercise, lab, summary, quiz).

• 1. Composing Hello Pico on Kubernetes — introduces the Crossplane primitives (Provider, XRD, Composition, XR, Managed Resource) and maps them onto the Pico Rules → Parser → Composer → Pico pipeline. The lesson is conceptual; its accompanying Lab points at the reusable, runnable Hello Pico on Kubernetes lab.

Where the runnable lab lives

The lab for Part 1 composes and runs hello-world-pico on Kubernetes with Crossplane. It is the reusable Hello Pico on Kubernetes lab under the repository-root labs/ directory, so other courses can point at the same runnable content. Learners who have not yet completed the introductory Hello Pico lab should complete it first — the greeting value used by this lab is the same one produced there.