TL;DR - Crossplane
- Crossplane is an open-source control plane for building cloud-native platforms
- It enables teams to provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes-native APIs
- Completely free and open-source
Pricing: Free forever
Best for: Individuals & startups
Score: 82/100
Pricing Plans
Open Source
Free
Apache 2.0
- Cloud-native control plane
- K8s-based
- Multi-cloud
- CNCF Graduated
UXP (Upbound)
Free
Enterprise distro
- Enterprise features
- Drop-in replacement
- Free open source
Most Popular
Upbound Commercial
Enterprise support
- Commercial support
- SLA
- Enterprise features
About Crossplane
Crossplane extends Kubernetes to manage cloud infrastructure. Define databases, storage, and other cloud services using the same Kubernetes resources and tools you use for applications.
Cloud providers become Kubernetes resources. The same GitOps workflows manage applications and infrastructure. Composition lets you build reusable abstractions.
Platform teams wanting unified infrastructure management choose Crossplane to extend Kubernetes into cloud resource provisioning.
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Crossplane FAQ
Yes, Crossplane is free and open source. Apache 2.0 license. CNCF project.
Crossplane is infrastructure as code for Kubernetes. Provision cloud resources with K8s CRDs. Universal control plane.
Crossplane uses Kubernetes, Terraform uses HCL. Crossplane for K8s-native. Terraform for broader use.
Plugins for different clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure. Enable managing cloud resources through Kubernetes.