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Announcing the Upbound Marketplace and "Upbound Official" Program

Bassam Tabbara on Upbound Marketplace, Thought Leadership, Release, Open Source | 17 Oct 2022

Today we’re excited to announce the Upbound Marketplace and the “Upbound Official” program, two important steps in accelerating the growth of the Crossplane community and the adoption of control planes. »

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

Bassam Tabbara on Venture Capital, Google Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Intel Capital, Funding | 29 Nov 2021

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

Outgrowing Terraform — and Migrating to Crossplane

Bassam Tabbara on AWS, Crossplane, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Universal Crossplane, Application Delivery | 16 Jun 2021

Terraform is a widely deployed and popular technology that is used to enable an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach. While Terraform can be extremely useful, it does have »

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

Bassam Tabbara on AWS, Cloud Native, CNCF, Crossplane, Kubernetes, Upbound Cloud, Universal Crossplane, Red Hat, Partner, Getting Started | 27 May 2021

We launched Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP) less than a week ago and already momentum is building around the first enterprise-grade distribution of open source Crossplane. Two »

Crossplane Community Day Europe 2021 Recap

Bassam Tabbara on AWS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Native, CNCF, Crossplane, KubeCon, Kubernetes, Open Source, Red Hat | 04 May 2021

The future of Kubernetes itself could well be found in the open source Crossplane project. That was one of the prevailing themes at the Crossplane Community »

Crossplane Momentum on Display at Community Day Europe ‘21 - Register for free!

Bassam Tabbara | 12 Apr 2021

The agenda for the next Crossplane Community Day is live, and it’s energizing to see the momentum our community has created. That momentum includes new »

KubeCon Seattle & Crossplane

Bassam Tabbara on Cloud Native, Cloud Computing, KubeCon, Kubernetes | 08 Jan 2019

If we missed you at KubeCon in December, we invite you to watch our talks on Crossplane and Rook. »

Introducing Crossplane: Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

Bassam Tabbara on Cloud Computing, Cloud Native, CNCF, Kubernetes | 04 Dec 2018

Today we are introducing Crossplane, the open source multicloud control plane. It exposes workload and resource abstractions on-top of existing managed services that enables a high »

Managed Services Don’t Always Lead to Vendor Lock-In

Bassam Tabbara on Kubernetes, Cloud Computing, CNCF, Storage, Cloud Native | 31 Oct 2018

If you are running in a public cloud, your applications and services are likely consuming numerous managed platform services. While your code is deployed in VMs, »

Deep Red: The Beginning of the End of a Familiar Open Source Business Model?

Bassam Tabbara on Kubernetes, RedHat, IBM, Cloud Native, Cloud Computing | 29 Oct 2018

In a surprise move, IBM announced that they are going to acquire Red Hat. At $34B, this is one of the largest software acquisitions in history. »