Relations

Relations is a concept that is non-existent in Crossplane, it's an abstraction that descant.cloud provides to simplify the creation of complex applications.

While creating a new blueprint you can specify that some inputs accept other entities as input values for the relation. Then you can map outputs of the related entity to your resources, this way you can e.g. create a DNS zone entity and then refer to that resource instead of providing all configuration for each DNS record resource.

By using relations you also provide a logical relation for your end users and you can encapsulate complex cloud logic by creating a set of entities that are related to each other.