crossplane/crossplane

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Crossplane is a CNCF framework for building cloud native control planes on top of Kubernetes without writing code. It lets platform teams define custom declarative APIs to provision and orchestrate infrastructure and applications across clouds.

Use cases

• provision cloud infrastructure from kubernetes manifests
• build an internal developer platform with self-service APIs
• manage multi-cloud resources declaratively
• extend kubernetes to manage any resource anywhere
• encapsulate policies and guardrails behind a custom API layer
• replace terraform with a kubernetes-native control plane

When to choose

• your team already runs Kubernetes and wants infrastructure as declarative APIs
• you need multi-cloud resource orchestration with continuous reconciliation
• you are building a platform engineering layer with self-service for developers

When to avoid

• you need simple one-off provisioning scripts without a Kubernetes cluster
• your team has no Kubernetes expertise or operational capacity
• you only need ad-hoc imperative infrastructure changes

Facets

framework · maturity stable

infrastructure-as-code cloud container-orchestration deployment api-framework configuration-management cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code self-hosted go cloud control-plane cncf multicloud platform-engineering declarative-apis kubernetes-operators devops kubernetes docker linux

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