Upbound, the control plane company behind the popular open-source project Crossplane, has announced the newest release of Upbound available everywhere, with several enterprise features bringing faster time-to-value to companies building cloud native platforms.

The 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.

“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,” said Jan Willies, platform architect, Accenture.

“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,” Willies said Jan.

You build it, you manage it” reaches tipping point.

“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.

• Unified Console: Upbound Console offers a centralised view of control planes and services, supporting both multi-tenant and single-tenant deployments.
  
  
• Enhanced Security: New APIs provide single and group-level management, while Shared secrets facilitate connectivity to external stores. Upbound Identity ensures access control across all control planes, with Shared Backups enabling automatic backup schedules.
  
  
• Automatic Upgrades and Migration: Configurable policies enable auto-upgrades based on channels, and migration to Upbound from open source Crossplane is simplified to two.

According to RedMonk. enior industry analyst Rachel Stephens many organisations struggle to manage disjointed software tool chains, which can lead to complexity and risk.

“Utilising internal platforms is one way to tackle this problem, but building a platform can come with its own complexity,” said Stephens.

“Control planes can help platform engineers enable developer velocity while also providing centralised 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.” she said.

“Infrastructure as code (IaC) has been around a long time, but users still face challenges like configuration drift and incompatibility with the cloud native ecosystem,” said Telstra Ventures, general partner, Steve Schmidt

“Upbound’s vision for control planes based on the automation and state reconciliation in Kubernetes is a significant step change for developer productivity and IT governance,”

“With Upbound and control planes, platform teams can look to new levels of operational reliability,” he said.

Upbound Availability

Upbound and the new features are available today. 

“We deeply understand the challenges engineers take on when building new platforms. Engineers choose Crossplane for its consistency and abstraction,” 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.”

“Once they hit production, they need more. They realise, ‘Now I have 5, 50, or 5,000 Crossplanes running. I have security, compliance and production operation concerns.” said Teich

As businesses increasingly embrace hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, Crossplane’s commitment to delivering comprehensive solutions underscores its dedication to enabling seamless, scalable, and efficient cloud-native operations.

About Upbound

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