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…

Why I Joined Upbound.

The story of why Sumbry joined Upbound, the company behind Crossplane, and why he believes they are uniquely positioned to deliver on the dream of All Clouds under a Universal Cloud Platform.…

Incubating Upbound: Delivering Modern Application Infrastructure

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…

Outgrowing Terraform — and Migrating to Crossplane

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&…