Hey y’all. 👋🏼 Ana Margarita Medina here, Staff Developer Advocate at Upbound.

What do ice cream and Crossplane have in common?

In the first video of our Upbound Crossplane Fundamentals series, I grab some ice cream (yes, real ice cream 🍦) and discuss how Upbound and Crossplane 2.0 work together to sprinkle intelligence and reliability across platform engineering, with a dash of fun on top.

Because let’s be real, building and managing infrastructure and applications shouldn’t melt under pressure.
 

What’s Inside

If you’ve ever tried to explain what a control plane actually does or wondered why people keep calling Crossplane the “cloud-native framework for platform engineering, this one is for you.

In the video, I break down the fundamentals of Crossplane 2.0 and Upbound, using one of my favorite metaphors, an ice cream factory. I cover how your ingredients (your resources), your recipes (your compositions), and your menus (your APIs) come together to make something reliable, scalable, and uniquely yours.

You’ll also get a taste of what makes Upbound Crossplane 2.0 so special with intelligent control planes that analyze and adapt to how platform teams can design their own menus of infrastructure and services without the manual churn.

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With Crossplane, now a CNCF graduated project, we’re seeing the cloud-native ecosystem move beyond traditional infrastructure-as-code and into a world where control planes continuously reconcile, learn, and improve.

That’s what we mean when we talk about “intelligent control planes.” They don’t just follow the recipe; they improve it. 

And that’s what gets me excited about this space: helping platform teams design more intelligent systems that are declarative, stay consistent, and are reliable, without losing their sweetness or flexibility.

Grab a Spoon, Let’s Talk Control Planes

This series is all about making complex cloud-native concepts feel a little more human (and a lot more fun).

So grab your favorite ice cream pint, hit play, and let’s talk about how the perfect recipe can make all the difference, whether you’re serving up sundaes or scaling systems.

Stay tuned. We’ve got more videos (and maybe even more scoops) coming soon.