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Crossplane is a framework for building cloud native control planes. When the founders of Crossplane at Upbound told me what they were working on in late 2018, I immediately joined the project and have been a maintainer since Crossplane v0.1.

What is Crossplane?

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Millennium bcp is Portugal’s largest private-sector bank, with 1,334 branches serving more than 6 million customers around the world...

Cloud Efficiency in Banking: Portugal’s Largest Private-Sector Bank Saves Thousands of Hours a Year with Crossplane & Upbound

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So why Upbound? There is a strong alignment of vision on the mission of democratizing control planes beyond containers. The …

Why I joined Upbound: Democratizing Control Planes – Beyond Containers

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As the creators of the Crossplane project, we are always thrilled to see the enthusiasm and engagement from attendees at …

Wrapping Up KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam & Looking Ahead

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Explore how Argo CD users can implement Crossplane to manage infrastructure resources beyond Kubernetes to simplify infrastructure management and create …

Argo CD and Crossplane for Managing the Whole Application Stack

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It was an exciting month here at Upbound – from a new product launch to attending KubeCon to meet many …

Upbound Resource Roundup: April 2023

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Today, Upbound and VMware are working together for the better and celebrating a new partnership for the benefit of the …

Upbound and VMware Tanzu Application Platform Partner to Deliver a Completely Satisfying Developer Experience

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Learn how you can use the features & capabilities of Upbound to build a platform above Azure

Using Upbound to build a platform above Azure

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Today, we are announcing that Upbound is Generally Available, helping platform teams build, deploy, and operate control planes at scale …

General Availability of Upbound puts managed control planes centerstage, unlocks Crossplane at scale

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When working with cloud native technologies, it is easy to get deep into one part of the system and lose …

‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ with VMware & Upbound at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023

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It’s crucial to show appreciation for the hard work and dedication of those building our company into something special. That's …

Recognizing Excellence: Upbound's Annual Award Program Honors 2023 Winners

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As a company dedicated to helping businesses leverage the power of the cloud and build above it, we are so …

Upbound Resource Roundup: March 2023

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Most Platform Teams have a standard set of antipatterns that slow them down and prevent them from fully achieving the …

Top Ten Things Slowing Down Your Platform Team

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If vendors were able to package their product in a way that allowed them to easily integrate into existing customer …

Crossplane: A Package-Based Approach to Platform Building

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With provider-azuread, you can manage Microsoft Azure Active Directory resources. It offers features such as multi-factor authentication, device registration, and …

Provider AzureAD is Now Upbound Official

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Upbound is challenging the traditional way of thinking. And like King Arthur and his knights of the round table [“in …

Universal Control Planes:  “The Holy Grail” of Platform Standardization

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We have everything you need to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly changing field. Here are our latest …

Upbound Resource Roundup: February 2023

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As the inventors of this technology, Upbound is uniquely positioned with a wealth of knowledge and understanding to effectively harness …

Control Plane Revolution

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The Upbound Marketplace can help you get started on the journey to building your own platform by designing your own …

Crossplane Curious? Marketplace Makes Onboarding Easy

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In case you missed it, we’ve got everything you need to know about our latest product launches, blogs, and other …

Upbound Resource Roundup: January 2023

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Knowing how to debug issues with Crossplane is a crucial tool to have on your Crossplane journey. Here are three …

Learning to Troubleshoot Crossplane

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I ran product management for all developer products at Google Cloud, and I joined Heroku as the 9th employee and …

Why I Joined Upbound

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Explore a phased approach on how to include existing Terraform code and start migrating towards a Crossplane native solution.

Migrating to Crossplane with provider-terraform

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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum is a concept that Charity Majors popularized in 2017. This year, I took time to reflect on …

Riding the Pendulum

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A control-plane-based architecture gives you a declarative approach to defining and managing resources, a continuous reconciliation to eliminate configuration drift …

Composing a Platform by Patching Crossplane Resources

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With this announcement, we double down on our path of helping enterprises migrate to an internal cloud platform while supporting …

Provider Terraform is Now Upbound Official

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We’re pleased to announce the availability of Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP) as an add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. This …

Universal Crossplane is now available from the Amazon EKS console

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Crossplane contains the logic, machinery and reusable components that can be assembled to achieve your organization’s unique vision of efficiently …

Crossplane first look: What most people get wrong (and how to get it right)

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The secret behind the Upbound Marketplace is that it is not an OCI registry at all (per se), but rather …

My Other Registry is a Proxy

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Crossplane is a technology that I think will unlock a “Golden Age” for organizations: it is a framework for building …

Unlocking the Golden Age of Cloud Computing

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It became clear that, in order to continue to grow to meet future demand, Grupo Boticário would need to find …

Beauty that is more than skin deep: How Grupo Boticário future-proofed with Crossplane & Upbound

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With these ever-growing numbers, you can use these Official Providers to orchestrate your most complex scenarios. In addition to production-level …

The First Official Providers

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Use this provider to orchestrate multiple resource management automation approaches including Ansible using Crossplane’s composition mechanism. This will allow you …

Crossplane Ansible Provider: Getting Started

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Today we’re excited to announce the Upbound Marketplace and the “Upbound Official” program, two important steps in accelerating the growth …

Announcing the Upbound Marketplace and "Upbound Official" Program

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Learn how to automate the provisioning of cloud resources via Crossplane and combine it with GitOps practices.

GitOpsify Cloud Infrastructure with Crossplane and Flux

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Crossplane Kubernetes Provider can help developers use just enough Kubernetes to be fully in control of their software and build …

Why do developers find Kubernetes so hard?

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With Crossplane, operators can manage cloud resources like anything else inside Kubernetes. More than that, operators can build custom APIs …

Crossplane, the Operator's New Best Friend

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Crossplane goes beyond the capabilities of Kubernetes to control infrastructure outside of the traditional scope of Kubernetes.

Developers and Operators - A Complicated Relationship

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A lack of API compatibility can lead to dangerous and unpredictable behavior, but Crossplane packages make it possible to present …

Verifiable Kubernetes API Compatibility

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Over the past few months Crossplane has pushed the boundaries of Kubernetes with the number of Custom Resources it supports. …

Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a common pattern where virtualized infrastructure and auxiliary services can be managed using configuration expressed …

Infrastructure as Code: the next big shift is here

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TACOS stands for: Terraform Automation and COllaboration Software. It provides a framework for solving the problems with operating IaC at …

Spice up your Infrastructure as Code with TACOS

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Whether your foray into remote product management is temporary or permanent, reducing your meeting footprint creates new opportunities.

Succeeding as a Fully Remote Product Manager Means Breaking Your Meeting Dependence

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“Sumbry’s Philosophy on building a great engineering team.” “We’re hiring a team of rockstars!” Every time I hear that quote, …

We’re Not Hiring A Bunch of Quarterbacks!

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Configuration Drift Explained Put simply, configuration drift is where production environment settings change in ways the platform team didn’t anticipate …

The True Cost of Configuration Drift

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Every day Upbounders wake up thinking about how to usher in a new era of cloud computing characterized by unprecedented …

The New Era of Cloud Computing

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Composing infrastructure is difficult. We alleviate this pain by moving Crossplane package authoring from plain YAML to IDE aided development.

Moving Crossplane package authoring from plain YAML to IDE aided development

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Today we’re excited to share the alpha version of Upbound’s VSCode plugin for Crossplane. With this free tool, platform teams …

Announcing the Upbound VSCode Plugin

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Overview Today, we're announcing the Azure Reference Platform for Kubernetes + Data Services configuration package release in Upbound Registry [https://cloud.upbound.io/registry/upbound/platform-ref-azure]. …

Kubernetes + Data Services Deployments on Azure with Upbound Cloud

Crossplane now has 100% coverage for major cloud services with the new providers: provider-jet-aws, provider-jet-azure, and provider-jet-gcp. To create new …

Announcing 100% Cloud Service Coverage for Crossplane

The story of why Sumbry joined Upbound, the company behind Crossplane, and why he believes they are uniquely positioned to …

Why I Joined Upbound.

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Today I’m incredibly excited to announce that we’ve raised $60M in new funding. Our Series B was led by Altimeter …

Upbound Raises $60M in Funding to Advance its Universal Cloud Platform

Highlights * Upbound is now available in three tiers giving customers more options around hosting and management * Customers can …

Upbound Enterprise and Unified Pricing

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Today the CNCF announced that the open source Crossplane project, created by Upbound and with a broad community of contributors, …

Incubating Upbound: Delivering Modern Application Infrastructure

Terraform is a widely deployed and popular technology that is used to enable an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach. While Terraform can …

Outgrowing Terraform — and Migrating to Crossplane

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, better known by the acronym CI/CD is the foundation of modern DevOps. At the Crossplane …

Connecting the Platform Pieces for Automated CI/CD

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A well documented challenge of being an open source company is figuring out the right balance between open sourcing and …

Open Source and Upbound

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We launched Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP) less than a week ago and already momentum is building around the first enterprise-grade …

UXP Now Available in Two Public Marketplaces, With More on the Way

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Today, after a year of learning from customers and seeing the Crossplane community’s control plane ideas go mainstream in the …

Universal Crossplane and Upbound General Availability

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The future of Kubernetes itself could well be found in the open source Crossplane [www.crossplane.io] project. That was one of …

Crossplane Community Day Europe 2021 Recap

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The agenda [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/crossplane-community-day-europe/program/schedule/] for the next Crossplane Community Day [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/crossplane-community-day-europe/] is live, and it’s energizing to see the momentum our …

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