Upbound is a scalable infrastructure management service built on Crossplane. The advantage of Crossplane and Upbound is the universal control plane. Control planes continuously reconcile your desired state with actual resources, allowing teams to self-serve their infrastructure needs.
Why control planes
Upbound uses control planes to manage resources through custom APIs. The control plane constantly monitors your cloud resources to meet the state you define in your custom APIs. You define your resources with Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), which Upbound parses, connects with the service, and manages on your behalf.
Why Upbound
Upbound offers several advantages for managing complex infrastructure. As your infrastructure grows, managing cloud environments, scaling, and security can become more challenging. Other infrastructure as code tools often require more hands-on intervention to avoid drift and deploy consistently across providers.
By adopting Upbound, you gain:
- Integrated drift protection and continuous reconciliation
- Scalability across providers
- Self-service deployment workflows
- Enhanced security posture and reduced blast radius
- Consistent deployment using GitOps principles
Try it out
In the next guide, you’ll learn how to provision cloud resources in your preferred provider. Follow the guide to learn the full capabilities of Upbound’s cross-cloud infrastructure management.
