Jared Watts

This was originally posted on the New Stack here. A Flexible Framework Crossplane is a popular open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides a framework to help you build your own opinionated cloud native control plane – complete with all of the policy, best practices and configuration that’s important to your organization.

Here’s a familiar story: A monolithic code base grows and grows to meet the demands for new features and an enlarging user base. Unclear ownership, increased build times, a disproportionate number of testing per application are but a few of the headaches that ensue. So the story goes for how the monolith outlived its useful lifespan. And one by one, unrelated product areas were decoupled and a distributed system was built in its place.

Crossplane is a popular open source Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that provides a framework to help you build your own opinionated cloud native control plane — complete with all of the policies, best practices and configurations that are important to your organization. A vibrant and healthy community has rallied around the project as a neutral place for vendors and individuals to come together and collaborate on enabling a new approach to managing all of your resources.