Crossplane
crossplane.ioThe Cloud-Native Framework for Platform Engineering
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About
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.
Problem
Organizations struggle to build scalable internal platforms with consistent APIs and guardrails across diverse cloud infrastructure without deep expertise.
For
Platform engineers and DevOps teams building internal developer platforms
How it works
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.
Business model
open-source
Status
launched
Company
Upbound