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Level Up with Crossplane, Presented by Upbound

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Crossplane: The Cloud Native Control Plane

Upbound makes Cluster-as-a-Service–and other self-service deployments of cloud-native infrastructure and applications–easy for developers and manageable for the platform team. Find out why it’s essential for any platform team and how it's done.

Using Upbound to roll out Cluster-as-a-Service to your developers

Enabling platform engineers to extend the power of Upbound managed control planes, backed by Crossplane, into their cloud environments or on-premises.

Upbound Launches Spaces, Bringing the Power of Managed Control Planes to Fully Self-Hosted Environments

Upbound announced its flagship product is now available in the AWS Marketplace.

Upbound’s Platform for Platform Teams Now Available in AWS Marketplace

Open source community governance extended to providers for AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure to move the Crossplane ecosystem forward.

Upbound Contributes Control Plane Provider Technology to the Crossplane Project, Governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Company commits to leading the partner ecosystem for control-plane-based internal developer platforms, empowering developer self-service and flexibility alongside unified control and governance

Upbound Launches New Global Partner Program to Support Expanding Crossplane Control Plane Ecosystem

Enabling platform engineers to extend the power of Upbound managed control planes, backed by Crossplane, into their cloud environments or on-premises

Upbound Invests in Security Standards with SOC 2 Type 2 Assessment and New Trust Center for Vulnerability Disclosures

Cloud control plane company introduces the first managed control plane service...

Upbound Launches Managed Control Planes to Transform Internal Dev Platforms

Company’s first CPO and VP of Sales to bring Upbound to platform teams that build, deploy and...

Upbound Expands Executive Team Amidst Strong Company Growth

The one-stop shop for all things Crossplane

Upbound introduces the Upbound Marketplace and “Upbound Official” Program

The company’s Series B funding follows 10x quarter-over-quarter revenue growth fueled by Crossplane adoption

Upbound Raises $60M in Funding from Altimeter Capital, GV, Intel Capital and Others To Advance its Universal Cloud Management Platform

Upbound moves into the enterprise market with the launch of Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP) and the general availability of Upbound Cloud and Upbound Registry, ushering in a new era of infrastructure automation and developer self-serv...

Industry’s First Enterprise-Grade Distribution of the Popular CNCF Project Crossplane Arrives, Bringing the Kubernetes-Powered Universal Control Plane Approach to Platform Teams Everywhere

In Keynote Address, Bassam Tabbara, Upbound Founder & CEO, shares a vision for a cloud-native world beyond Infrastructure-as-Code

Upbound, Creator of Open Source Crossplane Project, Celebrates Progress of the Crossplane Community at Crossplane Community Day

Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud Join Crossplane Project Implementing the Open Application Model (OAM); Upbound Initiates Steps to Donate Crossplane to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation; Inaugural Crossplane Virtual Community Day Celebrates Significant...

Upbound and Leaders from the Cloud-native Community Advance a New Approach to Application and Infrastructure Management with Crossplane

Users Can Now Manage Workflows for Multiple Cloud Services from a Single Interface in GitLab Using the Crossplane Integration

Upbound Announces Crossplane Integration with GitLab 12.5 Release to Advance Multicloud Future

Popular CNCF-incubating project reaches significant release and community milestones

Upbound Announces The Availability Of Rook 1.0, Open-Source Cloud-Native Storage for Kubernetes

Workload Portability Across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and On-Premises All From One Control Plane

Upbound Makes Multicloud a Reality with Crossplane, An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

Company will use the capital to accelerate the delivery of its multi-cloud platform, also joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Upbound Announces $9 Million Series A Led by GV

Those heading to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe should stop by the Crossplane and Upbound booths to learn about the latest updates for the cloud-native control plane.

The New Stack: KubeCon 24: Crossplane, a Developer-Friendly Control Plane

Upbound's Steven Borrelli shares eight reasons why engineers building platforms should use Crossplane.

ITOpsTimes: 8 reasons why Crossplane is the ideal engine for internal developer platforms

Cloud-native technology and AI go together. The article also highlights Upbound and Crossplane seeing momentum.

Forbes: KubeCon Highlights Cloud-native Upside for AI, As Well As Challenges

Originally developed by Upbound and now being advanced under the auspices of the CNCF, Crossplane 1.14 adds the ability to add custom logic written in any programming language via a Composition Functions capability.

Cloud Native Now: Update to Crossplane Adds Ability to Include Custom Logic

The team behind Crossplane, including Upbound, has announced the release of the latest version of the framework for building control planes.

SD Times: Crossplane 1.14 released with platform engineering in mind

A little over three years ago, Upbound donated its Crossplane framework to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation where it has thrived. On September 19, the company donated Upjet, a framework it’s designed to be used with Crossplane, to CNCF.

FOSS Force: Upbound Donates Upjet Code Generator Framework to CNCF’s Crossplane Project

Flipping the script to a control plane. Cloud software automation generally begins with scripts, but at some point, according to Oren Teich, CPO, Upbound, that approach becomes unmanageable. Read the interview on how Crossplane helps orchestrate infra.

The Register: Cloud infrastructure automation: You want APIs with that?

Upbound VP of engineering Sumbry discusses the next levels of innovation and how people are now grasping how powerful composability is.

SiliconANGLE: Shaping the future of cloud computing: Upbound’s vision for distributed operations

Bassam Tabbara joins theCUBE to discuss news from KubeCon Amsterdam, 2023.

theCUBE: Insights with Bassam Tabbara | Upbound

Companies....are hedging their bets with a multi-cloud strategy, but this creates a new problem around finding a single tool for managing it all. That’s where Upbound comes in with its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management tool.

TechCrunch: Upbound nabs $60M to grow its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management project

As more software factories add Kubernetes, they are getting excited about the container orchestrator’s promise as a common platform across clouds and data centers. Upbound raised $9 million to build a company and help you manage this multicloud world.

GeekWire: Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes

Upbound, the creators of Crossplane, have released a fully-managed control plane based on Crossplane.

InfoQ: Upbound Releases Managed Control Plane Service

Crossplane contains the logic, machinery and reusable components that can be assembled to reliably deliver infrastructure and applications to production.

The New Stack: Crossplane: What Most People Get Wrong (and How to Get It Right)

Gathering buzz at KubeCon 2022 was Crossplane, the open-source project by universal cloud platform Upbound Inc.

SiliconANGLE: What’s the buzz? Crossplane shows universal promise in scaling open-source builds

A control-plane-based architecture gives you a declarative approach to managing resources, eliminating configuration drift and enforcing policy.

The New Stack: Composing a Platform by Patching Crossplane Resources

Upbound is looking to democratize the control plane by allowing platform engineers to get centralized control, governance and stability.

CRN: The 10 Hottest Cloud Computing Startups Of 2023 (So Far)

TechTarget: Banks dump Terraform for Crossplane infrastructure as code

Oren Teich, chief product officer of Upbound, shares insights.

Silverlinings: The challenges of shadow IT in a bring-your-own-cloud world

Upbound, the control plane company behind the popular open source project Crossplane, has announced the general availability of its managed control planes technology, enabling platform teams to power their internal developer platforms at scale.

TFiR: Upbound’s Managed Control Planes Technology Now Available

Upbound, the creator of the open source project Crossplane, has announced managed control planes (MCP) for the project.

SD Times: Upbound’s managed Crossplane offering enables auto-scaling of control planes

Upbound made generally available a namesake multi-tenant instance of a control plane management service based on the open source Crossplane project.

Cloud Native Now: Upbound Unfurls Managed Crossplane Control Plane Service

Based on the open source Crossplane control plane project, Upbound's Managed Control Planes service helps platform engineers build internal platforms that can scale.

IT Pro Today: Upbound Eases Platform Engineering with Managed Control Planes

Upbound is nominated in the growing fish category for making infrastructure management more automated, efficient, and reliable for customers.

The Business Journals - Seattle Inno: Meet the nominees for Seattle Inno's 2023 Fire Awards

Bassam Tabbara talks about the company behind Crossplane, Upbound, and its key focuses.

TFiR: Crossplane Simplifies Managing Kubernetes Infrastructure With Single Control Plane

Upbound brings Spaces to customers with rigorous compliance and data sovereignty requirements for their internal developer platforms (IDPs) and cloud-native Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

TFiR: Upbound Spaces Brings Managed Control Planes To Self-Hosted Environments

Upbound, the company known for the Crossplane open-source project, has introduced “Spaces,” a new feature allowing platform teams to deploy managed control planes in self-managed environments.

ITOpsTimes: Upbound launches Spaces to help companies manage their control planes

Upbound announced Spaces, a new self-hosting feature of Upbound's flagship product for platform teams to deploy managed control planes in their self-managed environments.

VMblog: Upbound Launches Spaces, Bringing the Power of Managed Control Planes to Fully Self-Hosted Environments

When you need a Kubernetes control plane that's easy to use and where you call the shots, check out Upbound's Crossplane-based Spaces.

Open Source Watch: Upbound Introduces Spaces for Enhanced Cloud Control Plane Management

Upbound made available an edition of the Crossplane control plane that IT teams can deploy in an on-premises or cloud computing environment. The new edition can be centrally managed via the existing SaaS implementation of Crossplane the company provides.

Cloud Native Now: Upbound Extends Reach of Crossplane Control Plane Service

Upbound Inc., the startup behind the popular open-source Crossplane project, today announced a new self-hosting feature for its flagship control plane technology, enabling users to deploy managed control planes in self-managed computing environments.

SiliconANGLE: Upbound Spaces brings managed control planes to self-hosted computing environments

The 2022 Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing features Upbound, the company behind open-source Crossplane.

Channel Futures: 4 Top Cloud Computing Vendors Make Gartner’s ‘Cool’ List

Stefan Schimanski, senior principal engineer at Upbound and a top 10 contributor to Kubernetes, takes a look at Kubernetes and Crossplane as the core of a developer platform beyond container orchestration.

The New Stack: K8s Is Not the Platform – Or Is It and We All Misunderstood?

The Intellyx Digital Innovators for Winter 2023 include Upbound.

Intellyx: Winter 2023 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award Winners Announced

Bassam Tabbara discusses Crossplane, an open source framework for building cloud native control planes, and how you can start to realize efficiencies in your own internal platforms.

The New Stack: Cloud Control Planes for All: Implement Internal Platforms with Crossplane

Host Lee Atchison is joined by CEO of Upbound, Bassam Tabbara.

Software Engineering Daily: Cloud-native Control Planes with Bassam Tabbara

The 65-employee company has added a chief product officer and a vice president of global sales and customer success.

Puget Sound Business Journal: Seattle cloud company Upbound expands leadership team

The evolution of Kubernetes and the rise of artificial intelligence were two major topics during day one of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in Amsterdam. Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Upbound, shares insights.

SiliconANGLE: The new tech frontier: Kubernetes ecosystem expansion and AI’s rising influence

Bassam Tabbara talks with John Furrier at CloudNativeSecurityCon 23.

theCUBE: Bassam Tabbara, Upbound | CloudNativeSecurityCon 23

What if onboarding a new software vendor was as easy as adding a dependency?

The New Stack: Crossplane: A Package-Based Approach to Platform Building

“People want a centralized point of control, and they do that around a control plane regardless of the workload,” said Bassam Tabbara of Upbound...“The best-kept secret in cloud is the control plane.”

SiliconANGLE: Upbound seeks to capitalize on Kubernetes’ growing role as an operating system for the cloud

The Upbound Marketplace can help you get started on the journey to building your own platform by designing your own APIs.

The New Stack: Crossplane Curious? Marketplace Makes Onboarding Easy

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Bassam

Bassam is Upbound’s Founder and CEO.  Prior to Upbound, he was the CTO and Co-Founder of Symform and then CTO of their acquirer, Quantum.  Bassam’s decades of experience further manifested very successful open source CNCF projects like Rook and Crossplane.

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Oren

Oren is the CPO at Upbound. He’s spent the past 25 years building products for makers, as COO of Heroku, systems management at Sun Microsystems, and most recently running over 20 developer products at Google Cloud.

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Sumbry

Sumbry is the Vice President of Engineering at Upbound. He has over two decades of experience working in the platform, infrastructure, and reliability engineering space at companies like AirBnB, Uber, and Twilio. Upbound is Sumbry's seventh startup as he has a tendency to join amazing companies that have strong products & technologies used to solve interesting problems.

Vice President of Engineering

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Kelsey

Kelsey is Head of Marketing at Upbound. For almost 15 years, Kelsey has specialized in integrated marketing strategies that both delight and perform for companies like FICO, NVIDIA, LifeLock and now-acquired startup Cumulus Networks.

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Tom is our VP, Global Sales & Customer Success and leads the customer acquisition, customer success and partnership functions at Upbound. With a career spanning over two decades, Tom brings extensive experience in the security and infrastructure domains having driven significant revenue growth at Okta and holding pivotal roles at industry leaders like Websense and Fortinet.

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Lem is our Head of People. He has spent the last 13 years helping over 300 startups scale and grow people and talent operations. Hiring and enabling the world’s best talent and creating a culture where they can thrive have been central paradigms in his approach to building world class organizations.

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Tyler

Tyler is our Head of Finance. Tyler’s experience scaling out MongoDB’s corporate FP&A operations combined with his MBA and broad experience running multiple finance and accounting functions brings the exact combination of skills to elevate every aspect of Upbound’s finances.

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The Upbound team

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