More troubleshooting patterns

We explored different troubleshooting patterns in the last couple of chapters and earlier in this chapter. It covered ways to look at resource references in the resource description to move from composition to the MR, using the event logs in the resource description, and enabling Crossplane/provider pod logs to debug. This section will add a couple more debugging skills to enhance our platform development skills. The following are the new patterns we will look at:

• Pause the Crossplane: Sometimes, there may be a requirement to stop the controller reconciliation loop in order to debug resource issues. We can simply edit the Crossplane deployment to make the replication count to zero. This is the simplest way to pause Crossplane during our debug window. Once our debugging is done, we can restore the replication count. Similarly, we can also pause the Providers. We reduce the provider replication count to zero using ControllerConfig (the configuration...