Any Customer Can Have Any Cloud Resource, Provided It Comes Off the Assembly Line: Crossplane v2 and the SIPOC Factory Floor

How Crossplane v2 orchestrates your cloud infrastructure like Henry Ford orchestrated the Model T — with stunning efficiency, total standardisation, and a philosophy that any customer can have any colour, as long as it’s black. Or in our case: any resource, as long as it’s defined in a Composition. Introduction It’s 1913. Highland Park, Michigan. Henry Ford is pacing the factory floor, twirling his moustache, and muttering something darkly about chassis frames not moving fast enough. Then, in a moment of industrial genius that would define the twentieth century, he invents the moving assembly line. Workers stay put. The work comes to them. Every step is standardised. Every output is predictable. Every Model T rolls off the end looking exactly like the last one. The output was so standardised, in fact, that Ford famously told customers they could have any colour they liked — as long as it was black. Not because he lacked imagination. Because standardisation was the point . Fast-forward