Crossplane: practice cloud resource drift and deletion

Use Crossplane in a staging cluster to provision one disposable cloud resource through a reviewed claim or composition. Change its desired configuration and observe reconciliation, then modify it outside Kubernetes to see how drift is handled. Finally delete the claim and verify the actual cloud resource lifecycle.

Infrastructure APIs can create costly or sensitive resources. Use limited credentials, policy review, and clear ownership. The decision should rest on predictable reconciliation and cleanup, not only a successful first provision.