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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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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?

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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post #9

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.

who is going to provide support on this? is it the one man band called bassam? This whole open cloud cross platform bullshit reminds me of the time when some idiots used to write the same application to run on top of linux windows and AIX without any real business need and wasted a bunch of money and time in the whole process.

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

#33

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…

Your comment here did a better job explaining your product than the website.

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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post #29

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.

Wordpress supports MySQL or MariahDB.

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?

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

#35

Anyone care to comment on whether this complements or competes with Rancher 2.0?

Seems to me you would run this on a Rancher 2.0 cluster, and then get automagically provisioned databases. It extends the default kube system, and Rancher just provides an interface to that.

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

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post #31

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?

> How does this work in a world where developer administer their own services?

in that world the developer plays admin too, and can configure crossplane as an admin.

Re: Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

#39

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 for CrossPlane, this will work if you guys stay true to your mission. A frustrated cloud user. Personally I will support you guys and GitLab any day.
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