Declarative infrastructure management

Crossplane lets you build a control plane for anything, with Kubernetes-style declarative and API-driven configuration. You describe what you want, not the steps to get there. The control plane figures out execution. You design the APIs, so engineers and AI agents can only do what you let them. Your APIs are self-describing, so they can also discover what is possible on-demand.

Unify application and infrastructure configuration and deployment

Crossplane enables application and infrastructure configuration to co-exist in the same control plane, giving both engineers and automated systems one place to understand and manage changes.

A single source of truth for infrastructure

Control planes built with Crossplane integrate with CI/CD pipelines, so teams can create, track, and approve changes using GitOps best practices. A single source of truth is essential not just for humans, but for automated systems and AI-driven tooling that need consistent, auditable inputs.

Automate operational tasks with reconciling controllers

Your control planes are made up of several controllers, which are responsible for the entire lifecycle of a resource. Each resource is responsible for provisioning, health, scaling, failover, and actively responding to external changes that deviate from the desired configuration. This reconciliation loop provides a stable execution model that higher-level automation and AI systems can build on without bypassing safety or policy.

Built with high levels of extensibility

Control planes built with Crossplane leverage broadly accepted Kubernetes patterns, making it easily extensible by adding your own APIs and controllers. Increase flexibility and security by baking policies, quotas, and permissions into a custom definition.

A strong separation of concerns.

Crossplane lets you bake in organisational concepts and policy at the API level, allowing your customers the freedom to self-service within the bounds of the control plane APIs you've defined.