The Crossplane Blog

Crossplane v0.12 upgrades claims/classes to a more powerful composition approach, plus more AWS and GCP cloud service primitives

Phil Prasek on Composition, GCP, AWS, Azure, Alibaba | 04 Aug 2020

Crossplane Composition is a more powerful and flexible form of the resource claims/classes approach it replaces. You can now define your own platform abstractions with composite resources and publish them for teams to consume without writing any code. »

Crossplane Joins the CNCF as a Sandbox Project

Jared Watts on CNCF, Microsoft, Alibaba, Cloud Native, Open Source | 02 Jul 2020

We are very pleased to announce that Crossplane has been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project! The team of contributors »

Welcome Microsoft and Alibaba to the Crossplane Community plus v0.11 support for the Open Application Model

Nic Cope, Phil Prasek on Microsoft, Alibaba, Open Application Model, OAM, Infrastructure, Application Delivery | 27 May 2020

Today we’re excited to welcome Microsoft and Alibaba to the Crossplane community and announce that Crossplane is the Kubernetes implementation of the Open Application Model! »

Crossplane as an OpenShift Operator to manage and provision cloud-native services

Jared Watts on Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Crossplane, Red Hat, OpenShift, Operator | 26 May 2020

A collaboration between Upbound and Red Hat Emerging Technologies explores the Crossplane project and its recent optimization with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as an alternative »

Crossplane v0.10 - compose and publish your own infrastructure resources, Velero backup/restore compatibility, and more!

Phil Prasek on Composition, Backup/Restore, AWS, Azure, GCP | 29 Apr 2020

Experimental support for resource composition unlocks the ability for everyone to author and publish their own infrastructure resources in a low/no-code way. More cloud services and Velero backup and restore compatibility round out this release! »

Crossplane v0.9 - new package types for Providers, Stacks, and Applications

Phil Prasek on Crossplane, Providers, Stacks, Application Delivery, NoSQL, Linkerd, ArgoCD, AWS | 25 Mar 2020

Crossplane v0.9.0 is our third release of 2020! Key features include an improved extensibility model, updating Kubernetes applications on remote clusters, installing packages from private repos, and a new security enhanced mode for Crossplane. »

Crossplane v0.8 - Spin up complete cloud environments using kubectl for GCP, AWS, and Azure

Phil Prasek on AWS, Azure, GCP, Stacks, Application Delivery | 25 Feb 2020

Provision complete environments (dev, staging, prod) from kubectl with a few lines of yaml using new minimal environment stacks for GCP, AWS, and Azure. Infrastructure operators »

An Open Post-Mortem: Investigating a GKE Cluster Connection Bug

Dan Mangum | 31 Jan 2020

This post covers how the Crossplane community addressed a recent minor bug that was shipped in stack-gcp v0.4.0. While it was a routine bug, »

Crossplane v0.7 - Schedule Workloads to any Kubernetes Cluster, including bare-metal!

Dan Mangum, Phil Prasek on Crossplane, Multicluster, GCP, Azure, AWS | 21 Jan 2020

Scheduling into on-premise environments is included in Crossplane’s first release of 2020 with the ability to schedule workloads to pre-existing Kubernetes clusters or clusters that »

TBS[8] Recap: All Things GKE

Dan Mangum on TBS, GCP, GKE, Multicluster | 17 Jan 2020

Yesterday we hosted our our first episode of The Binding Status in 2020. For this episode, we took some time to explore the new GKECluster and »