Controller for off-cluster operations

Techniques are disclosed for providing a native general-purpose controller for reconciling desired states for resources across a plurality of clusters in a cloud computing environment. An indication is received of one or more custom resources of the cloud computing environment. An API is instantiated at each of the clusters that are to be accessed. In response to receiving an indication that a desired state of one of the objects does not match a current state of the one object, a message is sent that indicates an action to reconcile the desired state with the current state. A message is received that indicates that the action to reconcile the desired state with the current state has been completed.