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Context
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▸ Providers are similar to Operators, but you utilize the Crossplane Operator for
installing and management
▸ Providers use a lot of the same tooling as Operators, such as kube-builder,
controller-runtime and controller-tools. For this reason, it is commonly considered
as an opinionated form of an Operator.
▸ The main conceptual difference is that providers are designed to reference some
external* resource
▸ For a developer, the nice thing is that you don’t need to worry about RBAC,
deployment and bootstrapping since tooling exists
What are providers, really?
* This is kind of a lie, providers can really manage any resource, and there are providers designed to handle in cluster resources as well!