opensource-multi-cloud-crossplane.yml

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  title: Crossplane lowers the barrier to a multi-cloud future
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    GitLab has been chosen as the first complex app to be deployed on new
    multi-cloud control plane, Crossplane.
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content:
  title: Crossplane lowers the barrier to a multi-cloud future
  description: >-
    GitLab has been chosen as the first complex app to be deployed on new
    multi-cloud control plane, Crossplane.
  authors:
    - Sid Sijbrandij
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  date: '2018-12-04'
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    Cloud computing has become the dominant IT paradigm and multi-cloud looks
    poised to be the primary approach, with [81 percent of
    enterprises](https://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/cloud-computing-trends-2018-state-cloud-survey)
    already adopting a multi-cloud strategy.


    A multi-cloud strategy prevents vendor lock-in, which is increasingly
    important as three major providers (AWS, GCP, and Azure) dominate the
    market. Despite the many benefits of a multi-cloud strategy, deploying
    across multiple clouds is still incredibly complex. While Kubernetes has
    emerged as the standard container orchestration platform, most organizations
    are running more than just container workloads, and there’s currently no
    standard for workload portability across managed services. What’s needed is
    a consistent, multi-cloud, open source interface, and we think there’s a
    new, interesting project up for the challenge.


    ## Crossplane aims to simplify multi-cloud strategy


    Crossplane, [announced today](https://crossplane.io/), is an open source
    multi-cloud control plane sponsored by [Upbound](https://upbound.io).
    Crossplane  introduces a set of workload resource abstractions on top of
    existing managed services and cloud offerings to enable an unprecedented
    degree of workload portability across cloud providers. There are [six levels
    of multi-cloud
    maturity](https://medium.com/gitlab-magazine/multi-cloud-maturity-model-2de185c01dd7)
    and until today, application portability (i.e. the ability to run an app on
    any cloud) is incredibly rare and has been difficult to achieve.


    Upbound is the sponsoring company behind [Rook.io](https://rook.io), a cloud
    native storage service for Kubernetes, and are experts in running managed