feat(project): add KinD configuration options and DinD support

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Description of your changes

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 which containers to attach to the kind-network
       • i first implemented configuration of the kind network with the experimental KIND_EXPERIMENTAL_DOCKER_NETWORK feature, but since this is a potentially unstable feature, i refactored it to instead attach specified containers to the kind cluster 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:
            attachContainers:
              - my-container

2. 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:
          attachContainers:
            - my-container

./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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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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The project command gains runtime settings for KinD configuration, internal kubeconfig addresses, Docker network attachment, 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.

Changes

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 options using project settings and defaults.
Docker registry storage internal/docker/*	Docker helpers archive and copy directories and connect containers to networks. 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 container network settings, and selected registry storage. It exports kubeconfig and synchronizes 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 localDevControlPlane
  participant ensureKindCluster
  participant ensureLocalRegistry
  participant Storage
  runCmd->>resolveRunOptions: Resolve project settings and command options
  runCmd->>localDevControlPlane: Pass resolved runtime options
  localDevControlPlane->>ensureKindCluster: Configure cluster and export kubeconfig
  localDevControlPlane->>ensureLocalRegistry: Start registry with selected storage
  localDevControlPlane->>Storage: Retain registry storage
  runCmd->>Storage: Sync sideloaded data

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 814bc

When a requested Docker network is missing, the new error mislabels its name as a network ID, which may confuse users. The runtime configuration and registry storage concerns are otherwise addressed; correcting the message is a small follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

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.

Security review details

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		The pull request adds experimental runtime configuration to the v1alpha1 Project API and changes local control-plane behavior without a dedicated feature gate. ProjectSpec.Runtime and its KinD, netw…	Add a dedicated feature flag for the new project runtime options. Add the flag to the CLI configuration and crossplane config set handling, choose and document its default, and check it before parsing or applying ProjectSpec.Runtime and…

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description clearly explains the KinD configuration options, devcontainer and closed-network support, registry storage, Docker-in-Docker sideloading, and related validation steps.
Title check		The 62-character title is under 72 characters and accurately describes the KinD configuration and Docker-in-Docker changes.
Linked Issues check		Issue #313 requires internal KinD kubeconfig addresses, connectivity between the KinD network and the devcontainer, and registry-mirror support. The PR reads the runtime settings, exports kubeconfig w…
Out of Scope Changes check		The registry storage abstraction and Docker-volume sideloading support the stated Docker-in-Docker devcontainer use case. Bind-mount storage remains the default, and the runtime setting selects volume…
Breaking Changes		The pull request does not introduce a breaking change under the stated condition. In apis/**, it only adds the optional ProjectSpec.Runtime field and new runtime configuration types; no public fie…

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Explanation

The pull request adds experimental runtime configuration to the v1alpha1 Project API and changes local control-plane behavior without a dedicated feature gate. ProjectSpec.Runtime and its KinD, network, and registry storage fields are added in apis/dev/v1alpha1/project_types.go (lines 121-166). runCmd always reads these fields and passes the resulting options to control-plane setup (cmd/crossplane/project/run.go, lines 161-186 and 265-275). The control-plane code then applies custom KinD configuration, internal kubeconfig export, container network attachment, and storage selection (internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go, lines 311-345 and 512-573). The diff adds no feature flag or enabled/disabled runtime check. The existing project beta maturity tag is unchanged, and internal/maturity/maturity.go only marks disabled commands hidden while explicitly leaving them callable (lines 46-64). Therefore it does not gate this new behavior.

Resolution

Add a dedicated feature flag for the new project runtime options. Add the flag to the CLI configuration and crossplane config set handling, choose and document its default, and check it before parsing or applying ProjectSpec.Runtime and the related run options. Keep the existing behavior when the flag is disabled, or return a clear disabled-feature error. Add tests for both disabled and enabled paths, including the API runtime fields, KinD options, network attachment, and registry storage selection.

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Review comments at @apis/dev/v1alpha1/project_types.go:
- Around line 158-162: Add an enum validation marker to StorageConfig.Type
permitting only bindMount and volume. Update resolveRunOptions to preserve the
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- Around line 504-513: Update ensureKindCluster to verify that reused KinD nodes
are attached to the selected Docker network and reconcile them or reject a
mismatch before exporting the kubeconfig and proceeding to registry creation.
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- Around line 622-627: Update the existing-registry reuse path in
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- Around line 379-416: Update the registry setup before the CA files are written
to compare the persisted CA with certSecret’s CA; when they differ, recreate and
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🟠 Major · Reconcile the storage backend when reusing the registry container. · controlplane.go:638-681

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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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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.

Seems to work fine, instead of specifying .runtime.kind.network.name the user can now instead provide a list of containers to attach to the kind network with .runtime.kind.network.attachContainers[].

I think this is a much better and more stable approach.

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🟠 Major · Preserve node images in a supplied KinD configuration. · controlplane.go:562

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Preserve node images in a supplied KinD configuration.

If a user sets nodes[].image, CreateWithNodeImage(defaults.Image) replaces that image on every node. The cluster then uses a different Kubernetes version or image than the supplied configuration requests. Could we omit this override when c.kindConfig is set and let KinD default images only for nodes without an image? KinD v0.30.0 explicitly defines this option as an override. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go at line 562:
Update the KinD cluster creation options around
CreateWithNodeImage(defaults.Image) to omit this override when c.kindConfig is
supplied, allowing configured nodes[].image values to take precedence; retain
the defaults.Image override when no user configuration is supplied.

🟠 Major · Avoid archiving the full registry directory on every volume-mode run. · controlplane.go:425-429

internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go:425-429
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Avoid archiving the full registry directory on every volume-mode run.

After sideloading, registryDir contains image data. TarDirectory(registryDir) reads all of that data into memory before ensureLocalRegistry checks whether it can reuse the existing volume. Repeated runs can therefore allocate an archive of all stored images even when initialization will not occur; a large registry can exhaust CLI memory. Could we defer initialization until a new container is needed and stream the archive rather than retaining it as []byte? (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go around lines
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In the volume-mode setup around TarDirectory and NewVolumeStorage, defer
archiving registryDir until ensureLocalRegistry determines a new container needs
initialization, and stream the archive into that initialization instead of
retaining it as a []byte.

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- Line 562: Update the KinD cluster creation options around
CreateWithNodeImage(defaults.Image) to omit this override when c.kindConfig is
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- Around line 425-429: In the volume-mode setup around TarDirectory and
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🟠 Major · Preserve node images in a supplied KinD configuration. · controlplane.go:562

internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go:562
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve node images in a supplied KinD configuration.
If a user sets nodes[].image, CreateWithNodeImage(defaults.Image) replaces that image on every node. The cluster then uses a different Kubernetes version or image than the supplied configuration requests. Could we omit this override when c.kindConfig is set and let KinD default images only for nodes without an image? KinD v0.30.0 explicitly defines this option as an override. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go at line 562:
Update the KinD cluster creation options around
CreateWithNodeImage(defaults.Image) to omit this override when c.kindConfig is
supplied, allowing configured nodes[].image values to take precedence; retain
the defaults.Image override when no user configuration is supplied.

🟠 Major · Avoid archiving the full registry directory on every volume-mode run. · controlplane.go:425-429

internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go:425-429
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Avoid archiving the full registry directory on every volume-mode run.
After sideloading, registryDir contains image data. TarDirectory(registryDir) reads all of that data into memory before ensureLocalRegistry checks whether it can reuse the existing volume. Repeated runs can therefore allocate an archive of all stored images even when initialization will not occur; a large registry can exhaust CLI memory. Could we defer initialization until a new container is needed and stream the archive rather than retaining it as []byte? (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go around lines
425 - 429:
In the volume-mode setup around TarDirectory and NewVolumeStorage, defer
archiving registryDir until ensureLocalRegistry determines a new container needs
initialization, and stream the archive into that initialization instead of
retaining it as a []byte.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go:
- Line 562: Update the KinD cluster creation options around
CreateWithNodeImage(defaults.Image) to omit this override when c.kindConfig is
supplied, allowing configured nodes[].image values to take precedence; retain
the defaults.Image override when no user configuration is supplied.
- Around line 425-429: In the volume-mode setup around TarDirectory and
NewVolumeStorage, defer archiving registryDir until ensureLocalRegistry
determines a new container needs initialization, and stream the archive into
that initialization instead of retaining it as a []byte.

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The proposed solution for the concern about loading the whole registry-dir to memory on volume initialization would require too big refactor imo. I implemented a fix that only loads the cert-dir into memory. That allocation is bounded and small.

Fixed the override of node-image issue.

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Review comments at @internal/docker/docker.go:
- Line 665: Update the network lookup error that uses networkName to say the
requested Docker network was not found, and prompt the user to check the
configured network name.

Review comments at @internal/project/controlplane/controlplane.go:
- Line 391: Update the certificate directory creation and the ca.crt, tls.crt,
and tls.key write error returns to wrap the underlying OS error, include the
affected path, and provide a useful next step such as checking directory
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