Announcing Upbound is Now Everywhere, Accelerating Crossplane Control Planes for Enterprises

Cloud-native visionary unifies control plane experience with enterprise-grade control and scale, enabling flexible deployment and management of platforms anywhere

Upbound, the control plane company behind the popular open source project Crossplane, today announced the newest release of Upbound available everywhere, with several enterprise features bringing faster time-to-value to companies building cloud native platforms. This leap-forward release offers a unified managed Crossplane experience that’s available for customers anywhere–whether that’s Upbound’s multi-tenant SaaS or single-tenant on customers’ own infrastructure. Along with a global Console with several features for platform operators, automatic upgrades, and enterprise security, Upbound enables platform engineers to get started with control planes faster and more easily manage Crossplane at an enterprise scale.

After a year of 3x sales growth with customers like Deutsche Kreditbank, Gameloft, Millennium bcp, Variphy and more, Upbound is poised to accelerate enterprise-ready Crossplane for platform engineering teams globally.

“Companies building out Crossplane-based platforms at scale have to deal with issues like tenancy and isolation when managing resources across all their cloud accounts. The latest release of Upbound enables customers to rapidly adopt and scale Crossplane by adopting a multi-Crossplane architecture, automation, added security, and the peace of mind to view and manage it from one place,” said Jan Willies, platform architect, Accenture.

“You build it, you manage it” has reached a tipping point where DevOps and platform teams run into a chaotic mess administering their internal developer platforms (IDPs) alone. Platform teams seek flexibility through common, cloud native tooling while maintaining necessary security and governance controls. The solution is fundamentally building their own unified platform using control planes akin to the cloud providers.

Crossplane Reinvented for the Enterprise Cloud

With Upbound, platform engineers create their own central cloud native platform. Infrastructure resource abstractions are exposed as stable APIs for all teams to use. Every developer is empowered to build their apps faster by self-servicing their infrastructure needs through those APIs. Upbound builds on top of Crossplane with enterprise features focused on scale, security, production needs, and ease of use.

The Upbound platform delivers an enterprise-ready Crossplane experience with a new set of features, unifying its platform experience across cloud and self-hosted Spaces. Platform engineers get a better way to manage their cloud-native workloads with the following newest benefits:

• Connected Console: Upbound Console is a powerful tool that provides a unified view of all control planes and services running. Customers can use the same Console and CLI experience when interacting with Upbound across both multi-tenant or single-tenant deployments hosted on their own infrastructure. Platform teams can now use the console to visualize, inspect and debug their entire platform, all from a single console with SSO and Upbound IAM.
• Enhanced security: New APIs are available for operating single and group-level experiences. Shared secrets offer built-in support to connect managed control planes to external secret stores and are configurable for single and multi-Crossplane control plane access. Upbound Identity is available to manage access control across all managed control planes, wherever they run. Additionally, Shared Backups enable the configuration of automatic backup schedules to be applied to one or more managed control planes in a group. Customers can restore control planes to an earlier state from these backups.
• Automatic upgrades and easy migration: Customers can use a configurable policy to auto-upgrade managed control planes by channel or pin to a specific Crossplane version. The control plane migrator can move open source Crossplane control planes to Upbound with two commands, making it easy to get started with Upbound.

“Many organizations struggle to manage disjointed software tool chains, which can lead to complexity and risk. Utilizing internal platforms is one way to tackle this problem, but building a platform can come with its own complexity,” said Rachel Stephens, senior industry analyst with RedMonk. “Control planes can help platform engineers enable developer velocity while also providing centralized governance and management capabilities. By abstracting the heavy lifting, control plane-enabled platforms and enterprise solutions like Upbound allow organizations to focus on delivering value to their customers.”

Availability

Upbound and the new features are available today. Sign up to request a demo.

“We deeply understand the challenges engineers take on when building new platforms. Engineers choose Crossplane for its consistency and abstraction. Once they hit production, they need more. They realize, ‘Now I have 5, 50, or 5,000 Crossplanes running. I have security, compliance and production operation concerns,’” said Oren Teich, chief product officer, Upbound. “That’s where Upbound comes in–enabling any platform engineer to get the benefits of Crossplane faster, fully supported to build, run, and manage their platforms at scale, anywhere.”

About Upbound

Upbound is democratizing the best-kept secret in cloud computing — the control plane. By leveraging custom APIs, cloud engineers are no longer hindered by configuration drift, multiplying workspaces and frustrated developers. With Upbound, platform engineers get centralized control, governance and stability and developers get the freedom of self-service.

Upbound is the creator and maintainer of the popular open source project Crossplane, a framework for building cloud-native control planes. The company is a Series B startup and has raised $69M in total funding. Upbound’s backers include GV (formerly Google Ventures), Altimeter Capital, Telstra Ventures and Intel Capital. For more information, visit upbound.io.

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