Crossplane lowers the barrier to a multi-cloud future

Cloud computing is now the dominant IT paradigm, with multi-cloud strategies being adopted by 81 percent of enterprises to avoid vendor lock-in, especially as AWS, GCP, and Azure dominate the market. Despite its advantages, implementing a multi-cloud strategy remains complex due to the lack of standardized workload portability across managed services. Crossplane, an open-source multi-cloud control plane sponsored by Upbound, aims to address this challenge by introducing workload resource abstractions that enable greater portability across cloud providers. This project aspires to be a universal API for cloud computing, allowing developers to consume resources independently of the underlying provisioning and management details. Unlike existing tools such as Terraform and AWS Service Operator, Crossplane offers flexibility for workload portability across multiple clouds. GitLab has been chosen as the first complex application to be deployed using Crossplane, aligning with its commitment to multi-cloud DevOps and offering customers simplified toolchains and diverse deployment environments. The collaboration between GitLab and Crossplane is expected to simplify cloud orchestration, with future plans to deploy applications from GitLab using Crossplane.

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