Configurable products and their variants.

Get a parent product and their children.

Here i will show you how to fetch

All parent(configuarble products)
A parent product and all of its children.

Get a parent product.

We will start by making a simple class that gets all our parent(Configurable products)

<?php

namespace Test\Test\Controller\Test;

use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context;


class Products extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action
{

        public function __construct(
        \Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\CollectionFactory $_product_res_fac
        )
        {
            $this->_product_res_fac = $_product_res_fac;
        }

        public function getParentProducts()
        {
            return $this->_product_res_fac->create()->addAttributeToSelect('*')->addAttributeToFilter('type_id', ['eq' => 'configurable']);
        }

    }

As you see above our getParentProducts function will now return all configuarble products we currently have in our system.

Get parent and child products.

Here we first fetch our parent product and the we will get all children products that this parent have.

<?php

namespace Test\Test\Controller\Test;

use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context;


class Products extends \Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action
{

        public function __construct(
        \Magento\Catalog\Model\Product $productModel
        )
        {
            $this->product= $productModel;
        }

        public function getParentProduct()
        {
            return $this->product->load("a product entity id goes here")
        }

        public function getChildProducts()
        {
            $_children = $this->getParentProduct()->getTypeInstance()->getUsedProducts($this->getParentProduct());
        }

    }

The function getChildProducts now returns a children collection so you would be able to run it through a foreach loop and get all product attributes that might be on it.