# Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions — Create a CustomResourceDefinition

> When you create a new CustomResourceDefinition (CRD), the Kubernetes API Server creates a new RESTful resource path for each version you specify.

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## Knowledge

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When you create a new CustomResourceDefinition (CRD), the Kubernetes API Server creates a new RESTful resource path for each version you specify. The custom resource created from a CRD object can be either namespaced or cluster-scoped, as specified in the CRD's spec.scope field. As with existing built-in objects, deleting a namespace deletes all custom objects in that namespace. CustomResourceDefinitions themselves are non-namespaced and are available to all namespaces.

For example, if you save the following CustomResourceDefinition to resourcedefinition.yaml

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
  # name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: &lt;plural&gt;.&lt;group&gt;
  name: crontabs.stable.example.com
spec:
  # group name to use for REST API: /apis/&lt;group&gt;/&lt;version&gt;
  group: stable.example.com
  # list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition
  versions:
    - name: v1
      # Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag.
      served: true
      # One and only one version must be marked as the storage version.
      storage: true
      schema:
        openAPIV3Schema:
          type: object
          properties:
            spec:
              type: object
              properties:
                cronSpec:
                  type: string
                image:
                  type: string
                replicas:
                  type: integer
  # either Namespaced or C
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl apply -f resourcedefinition.yaml
```

Then a new namespaced RESTful API endpoint is created at

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
/apis/stable.example.com/v1/namespaces/*/crontabs/...
```

This endpoint URL can then be used to create and manage custom objects. The kind of these objects will be CronTab from the spec of the CustomResourceDefinition object you created above.

It might take a few seconds for the endpoint to be created. You can watch the Established condition of your CustomResourceDefinition to be true or watch the discovery information of the API server for your resource to show up.

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