Crossplane

Crossplane is an open-source cloud control plane extension that uses the Kubernetes declarative API to manage and orchestrate cloud resources as native objects. It brings multi-cloud resources into Kubernetes control loops via Provider (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure) and mechanisms like Composition/XRD, enabling unified infrastructure-as-code governance.

Core features and highlights

• Use Kubernetes CRDs to provide declarative management and automated reconciliation
• Support for multiple cloud Provider and provider-terraform, making it easy to extend resource types
• Define platform-level service catalogs with Composition, enabling reusable and composable resource blueprints

Use cases and target users

• Platform/DevOps teams building self-service platforms
• Organizations needing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud governance and a unified API
• Teams that want to bring infrastructure into GitOps and CI/CD workflows

Key benefits and highlights

• A unified API and governance model that improves portability and consistency
• Seamless integration with GitOps, supporting automated delivery and compliance auditing
• A rich, extensible ecosystem and community that makes it easy to encapsulate enterprise best practices and policies