Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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Jun 18, 2026
Our main use case for Upbound Crossplane at Carbon International involves maintaining our Kubernetes environments, which is entirely run using Terraform in the background. We considered using Crossplane along with Terraform to have all Kubernetes objects up to date, and we are still in the POC phase and have yet to bring it to production. There are a couple of surprises regarding the integration between Crossplane and Terraform. Managing the state files of Terraform and Crossplane is challenging because if both are working on the same platform component, synchronizing between the two state files is risky at this time. However, if we focus Crossplane towards one Kubernetes platform and Terraform towards another platform, we believe that would solve this issue, and my team and I are still investigating this approach. We are still exploring how we can utilize Crossplane to manage our infrastructure completely. We are trying to replace Terraform with Crossplane, but we are still in the POC and R&D phase.
My main use case for Upbound Crossplane is that initially we were frustrated with using Terraform, and right now all the infrastructure provisioning and infrastructure automation we are doing is through Crossplane. A specific example of how I'm using Upbound Crossplane for infrastructure provisioning and automation is that currently, for our platform, we have a cloud native GenAI platform, and for that platform, we have to provision various services in three hyperscalers: AWS, Azure, and GCP Cloud, so across all three major cloud platforms, we have to provision our resources using Upbound Crossplane and it is easy to manage them.
Upbound Crossplane is a powerful open-source tool for infrastructure management, offering a universal control plane that helps automate provisioning and governance across multiple cloud providers.Upbound Crossplane enables organizations to transform how they manage infrastructure by providing an API-driven platform that simplifies the creation and management of cloud infrastructure abstractions. It allows teams to build bespoke infrastructure APIs and manage cloud resources using...
Our main use case for Upbound Crossplane at Carbon International involves maintaining our Kubernetes environments, which is entirely run using Terraform in the background. We considered using Crossplane along with Terraform to have all Kubernetes objects up to date, and we are still in the POC phase and have yet to bring it to production. There are a couple of surprises regarding the integration between Crossplane and Terraform. Managing the state files of Terraform and Crossplane is challenging because if both are working on the same platform component, synchronizing between the two state files is risky at this time. However, if we focus Crossplane towards one Kubernetes platform and Terraform towards another platform, we believe that would solve this issue, and my team and I are still investigating this approach. We are still exploring how we can utilize Crossplane to manage our infrastructure completely. We are trying to replace Terraform with Crossplane, but we are still in the POC and R&D phase.
My main use case for Upbound Crossplane is automating our back-end deployment.
My main use case for Upbound Crossplane is that initially we were frustrated with using Terraform, and right now all the infrastructure provisioning and infrastructure automation we are doing is through Crossplane. A specific example of how I'm using Upbound Crossplane for infrastructure provisioning and automation is that currently, for our platform, we have a cloud native GenAI platform, and for that platform, we have to provision various services in three hyperscalers: AWS, Azure, and GCP Cloud, so across all three major cloud platforms, we have to provision our resources using Upbound Crossplane and it is easy to manage them.