Today we’re excited to share the alpha version of Upbound’s VSCode plugin for Crossplane. With this free tool, platform teams can more easily compose infrastructure resources and author Crossplane providers for their platforms using one the most popular code editors.…
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, better known by the acronym CI/CD is the foundation of modern DevOps. At the Crossplane Community Day Europe virtual event, Jan Willies, Platform Architect at Accenture outlined how to connect all the different platform pieces together for automated CI/CD [https://www.youtube.com/…
A well documented challenge of being an open source company is figuring out the right balance between open sourcing and commercializing the value you create. Recently we launched our own enterprise-grade and open source distribution of Crossplane, Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP), and took another step towards creating a new era…
Today, after a year of learning from customers and seeing the Crossplane community’s control plane ideas go mainstream in the cloud-native community, we’re taking our next big step forward. We’re proud to announce several new products and features...…
This month marks the two year birthday of Crossplane, and it's major 1.0 release which is now available to use on Upbound Cloud.…
Today we're proud to announce Upbound [https://upbound.io/] as a launch partner for AWS's recently launched [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/] EKS-D, Amazon's official upstream Kubernetes distribution that powers AWS EKS. Using EKS-D, AWS customers can create reliable and secure Kubernetes…
Today we're releasing a new multicloud Kubernetes Crossplane configuration to the Upbound Registry [https://cloud.upbound.io/registry/upbound/platform-ref-multi-k8s]. Using this Configuration, SREs, and the application teams they support, can easily deploy Kubernetes clusters into multiple cloud environments. Upbound Cloud enables this through a single API or…
Many companies have turned to Kubernetes managed services like EKS to help scale their Kubernetes footprint. These managed services are great for simplifying basic cluster operations like upgrades, auditing, and observability. However, Kubernetes managed services don't help customers deploy similarly configured clusters quickly or in a way that…
