Principal Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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Jun 18, 2026
Regarding Upbound Crossplane, I see room for enhancement in synchronizing the state file of Crossplane with Terraform, as 90% of organizations have generally implemented Terraform and have their own specific, environment-specific Terraform state files. If they are planning to integrate that with Crossplane, synchronizing both state files with respect to Crossplane and Terraform is one of the major challenges we are experiencing. Additionally, coding through GoLang and extending its capabilities as per our use cases is another challenge we are facing. The documentation for Upbound Crossplane is very good, and I believe no improvements are needed so far, except for the platform-level changes which I mentioned before.
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.
Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows. In the open source Upbound Crossplane, they can add more providers to support multiple providers, and for now, we are satisfied. I chose a rating of 9 out of 10 because Upbound Crossplane is a new tool and still it has a lot of improvements to be done. For example, fixes when it comes to databases is an area where things can be improved, alongside having good providers for supporting multiple databases which have the least performance issues.
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...
Regarding Upbound Crossplane, I see room for enhancement in synchronizing the state file of Crossplane with Terraform, as 90% of organizations have generally implemented Terraform and have their own specific, environment-specific Terraform state files. If they are planning to integrate that with Crossplane, synchronizing both state files with respect to Crossplane and Terraform is one of the major challenges we are experiencing. Additionally, coding through GoLang and extending its capabilities as per our use cases is another challenge we are facing. The documentation for Upbound Crossplane is very good, and I believe no improvements are needed so far, except for the platform-level changes which I mentioned before.
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.
Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows. In the open source Upbound Crossplane, they can add more providers to support multiple providers, and for now, we are satisfied. I chose a rating of 9 out of 10 because Upbound Crossplane is a new tool and still it has a lot of improvements to be done. For example, fixes when it comes to databases is an area where things can be improved, alongside having good providers for supporting multiple databases which have the least performance issues.