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About Crossplane
Crossplane is an open-source Kubernetes add-on that enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher-level self-service APIs for application teams to consume, without having to write any code. Provision and manage cloud infrastructure and services using kubectl. Crossplane extends your Kubernetes cluster, providing you with CRDs for any infrastructure or managed service. Compose these granular resources into higher-level abstractions that can be versioned, managed, deployed, and consumed using your favorite tools and existing processes you've already integrated with your clusters. We built Crossplane to help organizations build their clouds like the cloud vendors build theirs, with a control plane. Crossplane is a CNCF project which extends the Kubernetes API to manage and compose infrastructure. Operators can encapsulate policies, permissions, and other guardrails behind a custom API line generated by Crossplane.
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