NOTE: I'm not sure where this issue belongs. So there is a duplicate on the primary crossplane repo just in case: crossplane/crossplane#3224

What happened?

Kubernetes object names (.metadata.name) supports a maximum length of 253 characters.

Kubernetes Label values (.metadata.labels[]) are limited to 63 characters in length.

Therefore if your ProviderConfig has a name that is > 63 charcters when you attempt to use it crossplane will block you with errors such as:

'connect failed: cannot track provider config usage: cannot apply ProviderConfigUsage:
      cannot create object: ProviderConfigUsage.helm.crossplane.io "5156973e-c7fc-4b6f-9697-8f0aea08d75f"
      is invalid: metadata.labels: Invalid value: "xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xx-xxxx-x-xxx-xx":
      must be no more than 63 characters'

How can we reproduce it?

Create a providerconfig with a name longer than 63 characters and then try and use it.

What environment did it happen in?

Crossplane version:
v1.6.3