Crossplane Concepts TODEPLETE

Internal

• Crossplane

Overview

Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher level self-service APIs for application teams to consume.

Organizatorium

• https://blog.upbound.io/introducing-crossplane-open-source-multicloud-control-plane/
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whncqdUeU2cATGEJhHvzXWC9xdK29Er45NJeoemxebo/edit
• https://blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-vs-terraform/

Control Plane

What is a control plane?

Control planes are self-healing, they automatically correct drift.

Control planes offer a single point of control for policy and permissions.

Control planes integrate easily with other systems because they expose an API, not just a command line.

Crossplane can be used to design ad implement a control plane that expose declarative APIs tailored to your unique orchestration needs.

Provider

A provider extends Crossplane to orchestrate new kinds of applications and infrastructure.

Configuration

A configuration extends Crossplane to expose new APIs.