"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

Leslie Lamport

Every Crossplane story starts the same way. You spin up a single-node cluster on your laptop, install Crossplane, and watch your first composition reconcile. It's almost magical, until you try to run real applications next to it.

A small but important patch release that unblocks pulling container images from clusters running behind PPPoE links.

First post-1.0 patch release. Brings official documentation tooling, fixes Docker Desktop on Linux setup, and restores the install script after the project rename.

Overlock 1.0 is here. The biggest theme of this release is distributed control planes: a new k3s-docker engine, multi-node environments by default, remote SSH-attached nodes, and WireGuard-encrypted inter-node traffic out of the box. From an empty laptop to a full Crossplane lab — across multiple Linux hosts — in a single command.

Quick patch to the install script.

A registry-focused release: the local registry now speaks HTTPS, gains a load-image subcommand, and several rough edges around environment and registry creation are smoother.

Maintenance release with a Kyverno bump and developer-experience polish.

A big feature drop: a config-file driven environment workflow, automatic provisioning triggered by on-chain events, and a new Cosmos plugin. Lots of polish around install and error handling too.

A small stability release that smooths out package loading and makes environment creation wait for the policy controller to be ready.

Quick follow-up: pass engine config when you create a cluster.