2 years ago

Category: Software, Business, Kubernetes, Terraform

Upbound, the company that created Crossplane, has created what it says is the first enterprise distribution of Crossplane called Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP). Crossplane, currently a sandbox level project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), is an open source Kubernetes add-on that gives teams the ability to provision and manage cloud infrastructure from various cloud vendors using the Kubernetes API.

Tabbara noted that UXP is “vendor-supported, not community-supported,” in that Upbound will “help enterprises deploy it, support it, and give them a number of features that makes it easier for them to deploy and manage it in their environment.”

In the case of UXP, Crossplane is further extended with its integration with both Upbound Cloud and Upbound Registry, both of which became generally available at the same time as the release of UXP.

The big difference Tabbara sees in all of this is that, by taking the API-driven approach rather than relying on templates, as with infrastructure as code, Crossplane and UXP can deliver a more scalable experience to managing infrastructure across large and varied environments.