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Cutting Provider Memory by 80%: crossplane-runtime v2.4 and Client Caching

calendar_today October 8, 2026 person Jonasz Małecki domain crossplane

Crossplane providers have always paid a memory tax that grows with the size of the cluster they run in, not with the number of resources they manage. A provider watching ten managed resources on a cluster with two thousand CRDs and a few thousand Secrets could sit at well over

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