Open standards for infrastructure vendors
Crossplane uses the Crossplane Resource Model (XRM), an extension of the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM), as the open standard for infrastructure providers. It solves issues such as naming identity, package management, and inter-resource references when infrastructure offerings from different vendors are consolidated into a single control plane. The Crossplane community has developed these standards to enforce how infrastructure providers can integrate into the centralized Crossplane control plane. The ability to compose different infrastructures in a uniform and no-code way has its foundation on this standardization.
Wider participation
Upbound was the company that initially created Crossplane. They provide enterprise offerings for organizations that require support and additional services. But to become a universal control plane, Upbound cannot be the only enterprise Crossplane provider. Any vendor should be able to make an enterprise...