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This PR adds support for running crossplane project in devcontainers and closed company networks with the following changes:

  1. Add configuration options for KinD in crossplane-project.yaml.

    • Allow the user to specify their own kind-config (to avoid the need for more updates and flags to support other kind options later, ref. Adam's comment in this issue)
    • Add options to:
      • specify docker-network
      • use internal KinD kubeconfig.
      • specify registry storage type (ref explanation below)
    Example crossplane-project file
     apiVersion: dev.crossplane.io/v1alpha1
     kind: Project
     metadata:
       name: example
     spec:
       dependencies:
         - type: xpkg
           xpkg:
             apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
             kind: Function
             package: xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane-contrib/function-go-templating
             version: "v0.12.4"
         - type: xpkg
           xpkg:
             apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
             kind: Provider
             package: xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane-contrib/provider-kubernetes
             version: "v1.3.1"
       repository: example.com/my-org/example
      # New runtime field 
       runtime:
         registry:
           storage:
             type: volume
         kind:
           config:
             path: kind-config.yaml
           internal: true
           network:
             name: my-network
  1. Support registry data sideloading when running crossplane project in Docker-in-Docker

    When running crossplane project in a container, bind-mounting the CLI’s local registry directory into the registry container mounts an empty host path, leaving the registry without its certificates and package data.
    This happens because the generated files are only in the container where the command was ran, and not on the host.

    I added a storage interface where the bind-mount implementation ensures we keep old behavior, and a config-flag to use a volume-implementation. This required some refactoring of the code, for example moving where certs are created so they can be initalized in the docker-volume.

Fixes #313

With these changes, a user in a closed company network and devcontainer can run crossplane project with the following files and command:

./crossplane-project.yaml
apiVersion: dev.crossplane.io/v1alpha1
kind: Project
metadata:
  name: example
spec:
  dependencies:
    - type: xpkg
      xpkg:
        apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
        kind: Function
        package: xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane-contrib/function-go-templating
        version: "v0.12.4"
    - type: xpkg
      xpkg:
        apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
        kind: Provider
        package: xpkg.crossplane.io/crossplane-contrib/provider-kubernetes
        version: "v1.3.1"
  repository: example.com/my-org/example
    runtime:
      registry:
        storage:
          type: volume
    kind:
      config:
        path: kind-config.yaml
      internal: true
      network:
        name: my-network
./kind-config.yaml
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
kind: Cluster
containerdConfigPatches:
  - |
    [plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".registry.mirrors]
      [plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".registry.mirrors."docker.io"]
        endpoint = ["https://docker-remote.my-registry.com"]
      [plugins."io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri".registry.mirrors."ghcr.io"]
        endpoint = ["https://ghcr-remote.my-registry.com"]
./image-configs.yaml
---
apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1beta1
kind: ImageConfig
metadata:
  name: docker.io
spec:
  matchImages:
    - prefix: docker.io
  rewriteImage:
    prefix: docker-remote.my-registry.com
---
apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1beta1
kind: ImageConfig
metadata:
  name:  ghcr.io
spec:
  matchImages:
    - prefix: ghcr.io
  rewriteImage:
    prefix: ghcr-remote.my-registry.com
crossplane project run --init-resources=image-configs.yaml

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Bind-mounting the local registry directory into the registry container
relies on the CLI's filesystem being visible to the Docker daemon. That
breaks when Crossplane itself runs inside a container, since the mount
path only exists in the CLI's own filesystem, not the daemon's.

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Before review, I want to refactor this again so that the registry-storage works like before by default, and add a config flag for the docker-volume method. I think that will be cleaner and better.

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…o select storage-type

the bindmount implementation ensures that we keep old behavior, and the volume implementation is for DinD support

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The project command gains runtime settings for KinD configuration, internal kubeconfig addresses, Docker networking, and registry storage. Docker storage supports bind mounts and volumes. The local control plane applies these settings to cluster and registry setup and synchronizes sideloaded data.

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Local runtime configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime settings and run options
apis/dev/v1alpha1/project_types.go, cmd/crossplane/project/run.go
ProjectSpec gains runtime configuration. The run command reads a configured KinD file and resolves command options with project settings and defaults.
Docker registry storage
internal/docker/*
Docker helpers archive and copy directories. Bind-mount and volume storage implementations provide container options and synchronization behavior.
KinD and registry setup
internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go
The local control plane applies cluster configuration, internal kubeconfig and Docker network settings, and selected registry storage. It exports kubeconfig and syncs sideloaded data through registry storage.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant runCmd
  participant resolveRunOptions
  participant EnsureLocalDevControlPlane
  participant ensureKindCluster
  participant ensureLocalRegistry
  participant Storage
  runCmd->>resolveRunOptions: Resolve project settings and command overrides
  runCmd->>EnsureLocalDevControlPlane: Pass resolved runtime options
  EnsureLocalDevControlPlane->>ensureKindCluster: Configure cluster and export kubeconfig
  EnsureLocalDevControlPlane->>ensureLocalRegistry: Start registry with selected storage and network
  EnsureLocalDevControlPlane->>Storage: Retain selected registry storage
  runCmd->>Storage: Sync sideloaded data
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Selecting a custom Docker network sets a process-wide environment variable that is not restored. Impact is narrow because the CLI typically handles one cluster per process. Restoring the variable after cluster creation is a small fix.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ba0f0

Project files can now configure local cluster networking and registry storage. Existing resources can retain outdated certificates or ignore newly selected settings, causing trust failures and configuration drift. The demonstrated impact is within the selected development environment; no new authentication bypass was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The changed certificate-write ordering invalidates registry identity reconciliation. If a registry survives cluster recreation, the comparison accepts the newly overwritten source CA rather than checking the registry’s persisted identity. Volume initialization and cluster trust configuration are skipped on reuse, leaving stale certificate state and potentially preventing authenticated package pulls. This is a trust-recovery failure, not evidence of plaintext fallback.
  • Medium · architecture · inferred: New network and storage selections are not validated against reused resources. Existing clusters bypass network selection, and existing registries bypass network attachment and storage initialization. A requested move away from a shared network can leave the previous connectivity intact; switching from volume storage to bind storage can also select a no-op synchronization strategy while the registry still uses its old volume. Requested configuration therefore does not reliably describe effective isolation or data ownership.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The relevant exposure is the Docker environment available to the invoking user, the named development cluster, registry certificates and packages, and peers reachable through the selected existing network. Running inside a container does not by itself confine authority to that container, because Docker operations target the environment-configured daemon.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Project-authored YAML now supplies complete cluster configuration and network defaults to privileged creation operations. The operator must invoke project run with Docker access. Internal-address selection changes kubeconfig export addressing, while the existing separate cluster-admin option remains unchanged; these facts do not establish a new unauthenticated privilege-escalation path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Sideload publishes its image rewrite configuration before volume synchronization and returns copying failures afterward. The visible flow has no compensating rollback or serialization around filesystem writes and copying, so it does not establish atomic publication across interrupted or concurrent calls.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Reconcile reused resources against durable certificate identity, actual mounts, and network membership before accepting them. Reject incompatible configuration or recreate resources deliberately, and remove or mark partially initialized containers so retries cannot mistake them for completed setup.
  • proposed — Make explicit that project-selected KinD configuration is privileged infrastructure input rather than sandboxed project data. Document daemon-host authority and network reachability, and preserve explicit command overrides when users need to constrain project defaults.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Feature Gate Requirement ❌ Error The pull request adds experimental runtime configuration and significant control-plane behavior without a dedicated feature flag. ProjectSpec.Runtime and its KinD, network, and registry-storage fiel… Add a dedicated feature flag for the new project runtime options, such as a field in internal/config.Features, and expose it through the existing configuration command. Check the flag before accepting or applying ProjectSpec.Runtime and…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title is 62 characters, stays under the 72-character limit, and accurately describes the KinD configuration options and Docker-in-Docker support added by the changeset.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is directly related to the changeset. It explains the new KinD, network, kubeconfig, registry storage, and Docker-in-Docker capabilities, with configuration examples and issue context.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #313 requests internal KinD kubeconfig addresses, a configurable Docker network, and registry-mirror support for closed networks. The current changes add runtime settings for internal addresses,…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The storage abstraction and Docker-volume sideloading support address the devcontainer and Docker-in-Docker use case described by issue #313 and the PR. Bind-mount storage remains the default, and the…
Breaking Changes ✅ Passed No breaking change under the stated scope. The diff only adds the optional ProjectSpec.Runtime field and related fields with omitempty, plus the optional --docker-network, --internal, and `--k…
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The pull request adds experimental runtime configuration and significant control-plane behavior without a dedicated feature flag. ProjectSpec.Runtime and its KinD, network, and registry-storage fields are added in apis/dev/v1alpha1/project_types.go (lines 121-162). The new runCmd fields and resolution apply these settings unconditionally, and EnsureLocalDevControlPlane uses them to change cluster networking, kubeconfig addresses, KinD configuration, and registry storage. The only explicit experimental indication is the new Docker-network help text. The existing maturity:"beta" tag on the parent Project command is pre-existing, beta is enabled by default, and maturity.Apply only marks commands hidden for help; it does not gate the new runtime behavior. The diff adds no feature flag field or check. This matches the failure condition for significant experimental behavior and API additions without a feature flag.

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Add a dedicated feature flag for the new project runtime options, such as a field in internal/config.Features, and expose it through the existing configuration command. Check the flag before accepting or applying ProjectSpec.Runtime and the related run options. Keep the legacy bind-mount and default KinD behavior when the flag is disabled, and add tests for disabled and enabled paths.

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Reconcile the storage backend when reusing the registry container.

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Reconcile the storage backend when reusing the registry container.
runtime.registry.storage.type can change from volume to bindMount while the same registry container remains. The existing-container branch restarts the old container without applying the selected storage options. Sideload then uses the selected BindMountStorage, whose Sync is a no-op. The new packages remain outside the old volume, so pulls for those packages can fail.
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Resolution

Add a dedicated feature flag for the new project runtime options, such as a field in internal/config.Features, and expose it through the existing configuration command. Check the flag before accepting or applying ProjectSpec.Runtime and the related run options. Keep the legacy bind-mount and default KinD behavior when the flag is disabled, and add tests for disabled and enabled paths.

Not sure if i have to do add any more feature flags. Seems like the maturity level is on the command level, and project subcommands are already marked as [BETA].

I added a note about docker-network being experimental because it is not documented by kind, the only mention if this feature is in the code and this issue.

After re-reading it, maybe i should look into if an approach where we instead of using this experimental feature, connect some specified containers to the kind network. I can test if this would work.

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proposal(crossplane project): add configuration options to support users in closed networks and devcontainers

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