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]…
Today the CNCF announced that the open source Crossplane project, created by Upbound and with a broad community of contributors, has reached incubation level at the CNCF. [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/09/14/crossplane-moves-from-sandbox-to-cncf-incubator/] This is a major milestone for the project, and reflects its maturity & rapidly…
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 some limitations that Crossplane can help organizations to overcome. In the session Outgrowing Terraform [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRgQxfrFJYU&list=PLj6h78yzYM2OFWBatWHbWgyoLNmCyAqJ0&…
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…
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 major public cloud marketplaces have embraced UXP, making it easy for users to find and deploy UXP. The first is AWS Marketplace [https://aws.…
The future of Kubernetes itself could well be found in the open source Crossplane [www.crossplane.io] project. That was one of the prevailing themes at the Crossplane Community Day Europe virtual event, which was held May 4 coinciding with Kubecon EU virtual conference that is running the same week.…
Organizations and users find Crossplane [https://upbound-blog.ghost.io/composing-cloud-services-for-fintech-apps/www.crossplane.io] in different ways. For Kelly Ferrone, DevOps and software engineer at Akirix [https://upbound-blog.ghost.io/composing-cloud-services-for-fintech-apps/www.akirix.com], the challenge he had was that another team relied on a Kubernetes service that had been deprecated…