Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs

Over the past few months Crossplane has pushed the boundaries of Kubernetes with the number of Custom Resources it supports. In this post we’ll explore the limitations Upbound engineers have discovered and how we’ve helped to overcome them.…

The True Cost of Configuration Drift

Configuration Drift Explained Put simply, configuration drift is where production environment settings change in ways the platform team didn’t anticipate and doesn’t want. This is usually a result of developers making changes on their own, without approval or oversight from the platform team. As software development and delivery…

We’re Not Hiring A Bunch of Quarterbacks!

“Sumbry’s Philosophy on building a great engineering team.” “We’re hiring a team of rockstars!” Every time I hear that quote, I cringe. Now while that phrase normally compares hiring at a startup to starting a band I’m going to adjust this analogy to a sports one, specifically…

The New Era of Cloud Computing

Every day Upbounders wake up thinking about how to usher in a new era of cloud computing characterized by unprecedented customer choice, efficiency, and developer empowerment. Our mission is to enable customers to build, deploy, manage, secure, and consume their very own Internal Cloud Platforms on top of their cloud…

Announcing the Upbound VSCode Plugin

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.…

Kubernetes + Data Services Deployments on Azure with Upbound Cloud

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]. The Upbound Platform Reference Architectures (AWS [https://github.com/upbound/platform-ref-aws], GCP [https://github.com/upbound/platform-ref-gcp], Azure [https://github.com/upbound/platform-ref-azure]…