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Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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Post by drieddust »

bassamtabbara wrote: post #17
drieddust wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the business model of upbound/Crossplane? Product seems to be free.

hi bassam here (CEO @ Upbound). Our business model is still firming up, but we're thinking we would be hosting crossplanes among other things. We want the crossplane project to be community driven (and not vendor driven) and welcome other contributors (see our governance model).

Thanks but aren't you worried about someone else hosting your product and competing with you.

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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Post by paulsutter »

drieddust wrote: post #22
bassamtabbara wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi bassam here (CEO @ Upbound). Our business model is still firming up, but we're thinking we would be hosting crossplanes among other things. We want the crossplane project to be community driven (and not vendor driven) and welcome other contributors (see our governance model).

Thanks but aren't you worried about someone else hosting your product and competing with you.

Crossplane could be one package that customers would not want to use directly from a major cloud provider. You'd never trust AWS/Google/etc to really give equal footing to a competitor. Separately, I'd prefer to trust the company behind the open source software as opposed to some other upstart. So this model may really work.

One observation: Crossplane and Upbound seem a little too unrelated of names. Github has benefitted from being almost synonymous with git (admittedly, Github also created the opening for Gitlab at the same time).

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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Post by bassamtabbara »

dylanz wrote: post #11
mfer wrote: post #8

This looks fairly similar to the new Kuberentes KEP for portable service definitions.... https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/...

Very similar. Can someone more familiar with Crossplane/KEP comment?

Yes, indeed. There appears to be an overlap in general principles (even in use-case example). From what it appears, KEP sig was "published/released" (not sure what is the right term here) on the GitHub 3 days ago, we did not see this. We will definitely reach out for further discussion.

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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Post by bassamtabbara »

paulsutter wrote: post #23
drieddust wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks but aren't you worried about someone else hosting your product and competing with you.

Crossplane could be one package that customers would not want to use directly from a major cloud provider. You'd never trust AWS/Google/etc to really give equal footing to a competitor. Separately, I'd prefer to trust the company behind the open source software as opposed to some other upstart. So this model may really work. One observation: Crossplane and Upbound seem a little too unrelated of names. Github has bene…

Great response! Regarding naming we did not want to tie the company to a single project, not did we want the project to feel like a vendor driven project. So we went with different names completely :-)
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