Control Plane

Is your control plane ready for Crossplane v2?

Jared Watts on v2, Control Plane, Crossplane, Maturity, Production | 05 Jun 2026

Holding off on upgrading to Crossplane v2? Use the new upgrade check command to see if your control plane is ready to smoothly upgrade to v2 today. »

Announcing Crossplane 2.0

Nic Cope, Jared Watts on Crossplane, v2, Control Plane, Release | 12 Aug 2025

After seven years building Crossplane, we're excited to announce Crossplane 2.0. This release extends beyond infrastructure to support applications as first-class citizens, enabling platform teams to offer unified APIs that manage apps and infrastructure together. »

Crossplane v2: A More Intuitive Way to Manage Applications

Nic Cope on Crossplane, v2, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes-native, Application Delivery, Control Plane | 30 Jan 2025

Since its launch in 2018, Crossplane has grown into a powerful tool for building Kubernetes-native control planes. Organizations around the world use it to manage cloud »

Go deeper with control planes at Level Up with Crossplane, presented by Upbound

Crossplane Community on CFP, Community, Community Day, Composition, Composition Functions, Control Plane, Crossplane, Functions, Getting Started, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Production, Scaling, Troubleshoot | 25 Apr 2024

Inspired by Control Plane Day and Crossplane Day, Level Up with Crossplane, presented by Upbound, is a new event series for the community of engineers interested in getting hands-on with Crossplane control planes. Register for the live May 7 event. »

KubeCon Europe 2024: Watch these 8+ Crossplane-y talks

Crossplane Community on ArgoCD, AWS, Case Study, CFP, CNCF, Community, Community Day, Composition, Composition Functions, Control Plane, Crossplane, Dapr, Developer Experience, Getting Started, Kubernetes, Observability, Scaling, Upbound | 18 Apr 2024

What’s the latest with the Crossplane cloud native control plane framework? Catch these Crossplane community talks from KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe. »

New Providers for Crossplane donated by Upbound bring up to 4x cost-savings

Alper Rifat Uluçınar on Providers, Upbound, Terraform, Control Plane, Community | 14 Mar 2024

Upbound’s engineering team has made a breakthrough to improve the overall efficiency of Upjet-based providers in Crossplane. The improvements bring faster provisioning and reconciliation of resources and reduce the running cost of the providers. This benefits anyone using Crossplane. »