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Crossplane is a multi-cloud control plane
Crossplane is a multi-cloud control plane that provides a universal API for cloud resources and infrastructure. It allows you to define, provision, and manage infrastructure using Kubernetes-style declarative APIs. Crossplane is the only open source contr
Read moreWhat is Crossplane?
Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes. Just like in the architectures of all the major cloud providers, cloud control planes have a backend that orchestrates the data plane and a frontend that exposes an API.
Read moreUpbound is so much more than Crossplane
Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes. Just like in the architectures of all the major cloud providers, cloud control planes have a backend that orchestrates the data plane and a frontend that exposes an API.
Read moreCrossplane is a cloud-native control plane
Crossplane is a cloud-native control plane that provides a universal API for cloud resources and infrastructure. It allows you to define, provision, and manage infrastructure using Kubernetes-style declarative APIs. Crossplane is the only open source cont
Read moreCrossplane is a multi-cloud control plane
Crossplane is a multi-cloud control plane that provides a universal API for cloud resources and infrastructure. It allows you to define, provision, and manage infrastructure using Kubernetes-style declarative APIs. Crossplane is the only open source contr
Read moreWhat is Crossplane?
Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes. Just like in the architectures of all the major cloud providers, cloud control planes have a backend that orchestrates the data plane and a frontend that exposes an API.
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Control planes: A better way to think about your infrastructure
You’re not sure how you got here: Years of DevOps has led to pushing all work to app engineers. Increasing infrastructure complexity and lack of standardization has led to slow velocity and a brittle system. Costs are creeping. And velocity is slow. Sound familiar? You need a control plane.
A CLOUD NATIVE PLATFORM LEVERAGING CONTROL PLANES GIVES YOU:
Security
No more cowboying. Get consistency across teams
Velocity
Ship more and ship faster
Tech Modernization
GitOps everything + ease adoption through abstraction
Multi-Cloud
Enable workload portability, burst + repatriation
The benefits of Crossplane. The scalability of Upbound.
With managed control planes, platform teams can scale to tens of thousands of resources with confidence. Get centralized control of any cloud service providers and any cloud native tools.
INSIGHT AND CONTROL
- Discover problems instantly across your entire deployment with Fast Aggregate Queries
- Unified policy management for hundreds of control planes based on Kyverno
PRODUCTION READY
- Scale to thousands of resources and hundreds of Crossplanes
- Enterprise grade security & governance
- Easily adopt with SSO, shared secret stores, integrated backups
EVERYWHERE
- Fully managed service available instantly
- Self-managed software available for on-prem and private cloud
- Managed upgrades
Feature | OSS CROSSPLANE | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Pay as you go | Charged the cost of a CSP’s Kubernetes cluster (API server, nodepools, storage, etc) |
| Control plane lifecycle - Release channels | Manual | |
| Multi-control plane management with Control Plane Groups | Not available | |
| Built-in Console | Build your own (Komoplane, etc) | |
| Cross-control plane query interface | Not available | |
| Multi-control plane external secrets | Build your own (External Secrets Operator, etc) | |
| Multi-control plane policy engine | Build your own (Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper, etc) | |
| Backup for managed control planes | Build your own (Velero, etc) | |
| Security and Compliance | Not available | |
| Autoscale | Not available | |
| Managed control plane connector | Not available | |
| Deployment service | Not available | |
| Identity and Access management | Not available | |
| Integrated Logging and Monitoring | Build your own (Datadog, etc) | |
| Hybrid Support | Not available | |
| Prebuilt Crossplane configurations and templates | Not available |
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We found in Upbound a unique vision that aligned perfectly with our roadmap as well as a set of enterprise services that allowed us to innovate faster than ever before.
Nuno Guedes
Millennium bcp
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Upbound Cloud automates and simplifies how software developers manage the lifecycle of our application portfolios, allowing us to innovate more quickly.
Jan Willies
Platform Architect at Accenture referring to Deutsche Bahn
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...is a must for the cloud team. This was a big benefit of Crossplane. Now, infrastructure couldn’t be any easier for developers. They no longer need to take time from the cloud team; they can work independently. "
Francisco Ribas
Squad leader and Architect at Grupo Boticário
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We chose Upbound as our partner in this important transformation because they created Crossplane and offer enterprise-grade products and services that will help us accelerate time to market.
Jack Parmer
CEO and co-founder Plotly
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