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Container Service for Kubernetes:Manage Custom Resources with Custom CRDs

Last Updated:Mar 07, 2026

Kubernetes cluster resources are API entities that store and manage objects of a specific class in the cluster. When default Kubernetes resources do not meet your business requirements, extend the Kubernetes API using a Custom Resource Definition (CRD) to add custom resources. This enhances flexibility in cluster management.

Limits

You can create certain resource types, but you cannot list their resource objects.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Container Service Management Console . In the navigation pane on the left, click Clusters.

  2. On the Clusters page, click the name of your cluster. In the navigation pane on the left, click Workloads > Custom Resources.

  3. Perform one or more of the following tasks as needed:

    • On the CRDs tab, click Create from YAML to create a CRD.

    • On the CRDs tab, view or edit the YAML configuration of a CRD.

    • On the Resource Objects tab, query and manage resource objects.

      • Browse API groups and resource types

        The object browser lists all API groups supported by the cluster on the left. Click an API group name to expand it and view its resource types. Alternatively, use the search box at the top to search for resource types by keyword.

      • Browse resource objects

        Select a resource type from the API list on the left to view its resource objects. You can edit or delete resource objects in YAML format.

References

To learn how to create other workloads such as deployments, StatefulSets, jobs, and CronJobs, see Workloads.