Crossplane Reaches Production Maturity by Graduating CNCF

"Originally created by Upbound in 2018 and donated to the CNCF in 2020, Crossplane has moved through Sandbox and Incubating stages to reach Graduation. It now counts more than 3,000 contributors across 450 companies and has passed a security audit under a vendor-neutral governance model. The ecosystem has expanded from a handful of cloud providers into a marketplace of official and community-maintained packages covering major hyperscalers as well as services like Helm, Vault, and Kubernetes add-ons."

"Public users include Nike, Autodesk, NASA Science Cloud, Elastic, SAP, IBM, and Nokia. The dominant pattern is using Crossplane as the backbone of an internal developer platform. Platform teams expose custom APIs such as Environment, Application, or DatabaseService, while compositions handle provisioning, networking, security controls, and backups. Developers get self-service infrastructure; the organisation gets standardized configuration and policy enforcement without manual review or tickets. Some companies have adopted Crossplane for multi-cloud control planes, managing AWS, Azure, and GCP resources from a single Kubernetes cluster."

Crossplane graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, signifying operational maturity, wide adoption, and a vendor-neutral governance model. Originally created by Upbound in 2018 and donated to the CNCF in 2020, Crossplane progressed through Sandbox and Incubating stages to Graduation. The project now has more than 3,000 contributors across 450 companies and has passed a security audit. The ecosystem includes official and community packages for major hyperscalers and services like Helm and Vault. Enterprise users use Crossplane as the backbone of internal developer platforms to expose custom APIs, automate provisioning, enforce policies, and manage multi-cloud infrastructure from Kubernetes.

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