Crossplane is an open-source platform that extends Kubernetes to provision and manage cloud infrastructure through Kubernetes APIs and custom resource definitions. It targets platform teams building internal cloud platforms and uses a declarative, control-plane approach defined in YAML. As a CNCF project it is free and open-source, self-hostable on Kubernetes, with a managed commercial option available through Upbound. It supports multi-cloud provisioning. As an open-source tool it carries no vendor compliance certifications.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2018
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Infrastructure as code
- Free tier
- Yes: Open-source (CNCF); free to self-host on Kubernetes.
- Open-source
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Approach
- Declarative
- Language
- YAML
- Multi-cloud
- Yes