Crossplane
More info
- Creator
- Upbound
- Released
- Owner
- CNCF (incubating)
- Type
- K8s-based IaC
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Website
- crossplane.io
- Source
- github.com/crossplane/crossplane
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Kubernetes-based IaC — describe AWS, Azure and GCP resources as K8s objects and let an operator reconcile them against the cloud.
"Terraform with a control plane instead of a CLI". Difference from Terraform: no state file, no plan/apply — the operator continuously reconciles drift between declared and actual state. Composite Resources let platform teams expose an abstraction (kind: Database) that expands into an RDS instance + IAM policy + secret.
Sweet spot: teams that already run Kubernetes and want a self-service platform. Maturity varies per provider; some CRDs are still in beta.