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> Crossplane supports a clean separation of concerns between developers and administrators.
If I’ve understood correctly im not sure this is the best way to sell the idea though.
How does this work in a world where developers administer their own services?
So how is this different from AWS Operator?
The AWS operator targets AWS resources. You can't take them, in a general sense, to minikube, Azure, or elsewhere. It's declarative to AWS services. Some would call the AWS operator as a form of vendor lock-in. I think the idea here is about using services with portable apps across cloud provider.
This looks really exciting and congratulations on launching! We will definitely be taking a look at this as it looks like a great fit to recommend to our customers. My startup Meshcloud [0] is helping companies manage the "organizational" side of multi-cloud like integrating account provisioning, SSO, policies, chargeback, quotas etc. using a declarative orchestration approach we call "org as code" (basically infrast…
Why do i need to configure a mysql database for a wordpress if that wordpress always needs a mysql database? While i really like the idea, i'm looking forward to see if we moved our problems down to the operator code or if those configuration problems are gone.
Other software supports multiple database systems.
There are opinionated packages of the sort you are looking for, I think, perhaps you would be interested in sandstorm.io?
Anyone care to comment on whether this complements or competes with Rancher 2.0?
I really like idea of separating a service’s infra requirements from it’s infra implementation details. > Crossplane supports a clean separation of concerns between developers and administrators. If I’ve understood correctly im not sure this is the best way to sell the idea though. How does this work in a world where developers administer their own services?
in that world the developer plays admin too, and can configure crossplane as an admin.
This looks fairly similar to the new Kuberentes KEP for portable service definitions.... https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/...
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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).