Crossplane Is the Cloud-Native Framework for Platform Engineering

Upbound built Crossplane to help organizations build their platforms like the cloud vendors build theirs—with control planes. Crossplane is an open source, CNCF project built on the foundation of Kubernetes to orchestrate anything. Encapsulate policies, permissions, and other guardrails behind a custom API layer to enable consumers, whether human users, automated workflows, or AI agents, to self-service without needing to become an infrastructure expert.

Crossplane builds on the class leading Kubernetes control plane, extending its battle hardened reliability and security features like Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to orchestrate everything - not just containers. By extending Kubernetes’ control model beyond containers, Crossplane enables a unified control layer for infrastructure. Because it shares a foundation with Kubernetes, Crossplane also integrates smoothly with the broader cloud-native ecosystem, allowing platforms to build automation and higher-level tooling without reinventing infrastructure fundamentals.