# Crossplane Providers

[Crossplane](https://crossplane.io/) is a Kubernetes-native framework that lets you manage cloud infrastructure as Kubernetes custom resources. Exoscale provides two Crossplane providers generated with [Upjet](https://github.com/crossplane/upjet), a tool that translates Terraform provider schemas into Crossplane managed resources.

Two providers are available because Exoscale SOS (Simple Object Storage) is S3-compatible and was originally managed via third party provider like the AWS Terraform provider — its Crossplane counterpart is therefore packaged separately:

- **provider-exoscale** — manages Exoscale compute, database, network, IAM, ... .
- **provider-exoscale-sos** — manages SOS buckets and related storage configuration.

Both providers can be installed independently or side by side; the SOS provider can work alongside `provider-exoscale` for advanced scenarios such as cross-zone bucket replication.

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