diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index dd70137f7..8b7f7e486 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ help: ## Display this help.
 
 ##@ Generate:
 .PHONY: generate
-generate: generate-manifests generate-code generate-mock
+generate: generate-manifests generate-code generate-mock generate-api-docs
 
 .PHONY: generate-manifests
 generate-manifests: controller-gen ## Generate WebhookConfiguration, ClusterRole and CustomResourceDefinition objects.
@@ -97,6 +97,14 @@ generate-mock: mockgen ## Generate mocks for the Linode API client.
 generate-flavors: $(KUSTOMIZE)
 	bash hack/generate-flavors.sh
 
+.PHONY: generate-api-docs
+generate-api-docs: crd-ref-docs ## Generate API reference documentation.
+	$(CRD_REF_DOCS) \
+		--config=./docs/.crd-ref-docs.yaml \
+		--source-path=./api/ \
+		--renderer=markdown \
+		--output-path=./docs/src/reference
+
 .PHONY: check-gen-diff
 check-gen-diff:
 	git diff --no-ext-diff --exit-code
@@ -301,6 +309,7 @@ KUBECTL        ?= $(LOCALBIN)/kubectl
 KUSTOMIZE      ?= $(LOCALBIN)/kustomize
 CTLPTL         ?= $(LOCALBIN)/ctlptl
 CLUSTERCTL     ?= $(LOCALBIN)/clusterctl
+CRD_REF_DOCS   ?= $(CACHE_BIN)/crd-ref-docs
 KUBEBUILDER    ?= $(LOCALBIN)/kubebuilder
 CONTROLLER_GEN ?= $(LOCALBIN)/controller-gen
 CONVERSION_GEN ?= $(CACHE_BIN)/conversion-gen
@@ -313,12 +322,13 @@ NILAWAY        ?= $(LOCALBIN)/nilaway
 GOVULNC        ?= $(LOCALBIN)/govulncheck
 MOCKGEN        ?= $(LOCALBIN)/mockgen
 GOWRAP         ?= $(CACHE_BIN)/gowrap
-S5CMD 		   ?= $(CACHE_BIN)/s5cmd
+S5CMD          ?= $(CACHE_BIN)/s5cmd
 
 ## Tool Versions
 KUSTOMIZE_VERSION        ?= v5.4.3
 CTLPTL_VERSION           ?= v0.8.29
 CLUSTERCTL_VERSION       ?= v1.7.2
+CRD_REF_DOCS_VERSION     ?= v0.1.0
 KUBECTL_VERSION          ?= v1.28.0
 KUBEBUILDER_VERSION      ?= v3.15.1
 CONTROLLER_TOOLS_VERSION ?= v0.16.5
@@ -355,6 +365,11 @@ $(CLUSTERCTL): $(LOCALBIN)
 	curl -fsSL https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/$(CLUSTERCTL_VERSION)/clusterctl-$(OS)-$(ARCH_SHORT) -o $(CLUSTERCTL)
 	chmod +x $(CLUSTERCTL)
 
+.PHONY: crd-ref-docs
+crd-ref-docs: $(CRD_REF_DOCS) ## Download crd-ref-docs locally if necessary.
+$(CRD_REF_DOCS): $(LOCALBIN)
+	GOBIN=$(CACHE_BIN) go install github.com/elastic/crd-ref-docs@$(CRD_REF_DOCS_VERSION)
+
 .PHONY: kubectl
 kubectl: $(KUBECTL) ## Download kubectl locally if necessary.
 $(KUBECTL): $(LOCALBIN)
diff --git a/docs/.crd-ref-docs.yaml b/docs/.crd-ref-docs.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e26109e01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/.crd-ref-docs.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+processor:
+  # RE2 regular expressions describing types that should be excluded from the generated documentation.
+  ignoreTypes: []
+  # RE2 regular expressions describing type fields that should be excluded from the generated documentation.
+  ignoreFields: []
+
+render:
+  # Version of Kubernetes to use when generating links to Kubernetes API documentation.
+  kubernetesVersion: '1.32'
diff --git a/docs/src/SUMMARY.md b/docs/src/SUMMARY.md
index fe13d997d..d5aef0968 100644
--- a/docs/src/SUMMARY.md
+++ b/docs/src/SUMMARY.md
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@
 - [Development](./developers/development.md)
     - [Releasing](./developers/releasing.md)
     - [Testing](./developers/testing.md)
-- [Reference](./reference/reference.md)
+- [Reference](./reference/out.md)
diff --git a/docs/src/reference/reference.md b/docs/src/reference/reference.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 774358341..000000000
--- a/docs/src/reference/reference.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Reference
-
-For reference documentation for CAPL API types, please refer to
-the [godocs](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/linode/cluster-api-provider-linode)