Crossplane
The Cloud-Native Framework for Platform Engineering
Crossplane is an open-source, CNCF project built on Kubernetes that enables organizations to build internal developer platforms using control planes. It allows teams to define custom declarative APIs and orchestrate any cloud resource or infrastructure across providers. By extending Kubernetes, it lets platform teams encapsulate policies and permissions behind a unified API layer accessible to humans, automation, and AI agents.
Crossplane extends Kubernetes with custom resource definitions and providers, letting teams define declarative APIs that orchestrate any resource anywhere while encapsulating policies and permissions behind a unified control plane.
Platform engineers and DevOps teams building internal developer platforms
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Upbound
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