An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
When we last covered Upbound in May 2021, it was driving the development of the open source Crossplane management control plane for Kubernetes.
Upbound is still championing Crossplane, positioning it more as a platform or framework for building control planes. In other words, platform engineers can use Crossplane to build their own internal developer platforms (IDPs), or any other as-a-Service offering that requires a control plane.
Upbound is also fleshing out its commercial offering: a platform for managing and scaling Crossplane in production, especially across multiple Kubernetes clusters.
The open source Crossplane works well on a cluster-by-cluster basis but faces management challenges at scale. Upbound addresses these problems by leveraging Crossplane technology to abstract fleets of clusters, giving organizations control over such fleets without having to worry about the management of individual clusters.
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