Overview
Upbound Crossplane (UXP) is the AI-native distribution of Crossplane by Upbound. Crossplane is a framework for building your own control plane.
Upbound Crossplane is a key ingredient in building out a platform powered by an intelligent control plane architecture. Learn about how UXP safely brings AI intelligence into your control plane's reconcile loop with Intelligent Control Planes.
Concepts
Because Upbound Crossplane is a distribution of upstream Crossplane, you'll find UXP shares the same concepts as upstream. UXP also introduces brand new concepts, such as AI-powered Intelligent Control Planes and Add-Ons.
Learn about UXP concepts by reading the concept documentation.
Features
Upbound Crossplane comes with a number of features that help you start, run, and scale your control plane. Learn about the features in UXP by reading the feature documentation.
UXP is available to any users under Upbound's Community plan. Commercial licenses are available. Some features are available for Community plan users, while others require a commercial license. See license management for more details.
Commercial-only Features
Users on a Standard Plan or greater have access to commercial features that enhance the reliability, efficiency, and supportability of their control planes. For more information, see our pricing plans or contact our sales team.
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Backup and Restore | Automatically schedule control plane snapshots for disaster recovery and seamless upgrades. |
| Function Scale-to-Zero | Reduce resource consumption by automatically scaling composition functions to zero when idle. |
| Official Package Patch Releases | Access patch releases of Official Providers with security fixes and bug patches. |
| Provider Pod Autoscaling | Dynamically adjust CPU and memory for provider pods to handle performance spikes. |
How-tos
To learn about Crossplane and UXP features, read the how-to guides.
Deploy and run UXP
Upbound runs UXP for you in our control planes-as-a-service Spaces hosting environment. Users can also deploy a self-managed installation of UXP directly on a Kubernetes cluster.
Get Started
Read the Get Started guide to learn how to use UXP to build your own control plane.