What is Crossplane?
Crossplane introduces workload and resource abstractions on-top of existing managed services that enables a high degree of workload portability across cloud providers. A single crossplane enables the provisioning and full-lifecycle management of services and infrastructure across a wide range of providers, offerings, vendors, regions, and clusters.
Crossplane is a tool in the Multi Cloud Management category of a tech stack.
Crossplane is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Crossplane's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Crossplane?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Crossplane in their tech stacks, including Labs, Upvest, and Full Picture.
Developers
33 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Crossplane.
Crossplane Integrations
Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Amazon RDS, and Google Compute Engine are some of the popular tools that integrate with Crossplane. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with Crossplane.
Crossplane Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Crossplane?
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Sentry
Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
