Recapping Upbound at KubeCon London 2025

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, Upbound showcased its leadership in platform engineering with engaging talks, live demos, and a preview of Crossplane v2.

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April 24, 2025

Ana Margarita Medina

Unleash Infrastructure Lifecycle Management with Python and Upbound

Unleash infrastructure lifecycle management with Upbound’s Python DevEx For AI Lab. This lab lets you build a self-service AI playground platform on AWS—powered by infrastructure-as-code principles and embedded functions.

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April 1, 2025

Markus Schweig

Meet Us at KubeCon EU 2025

Upbound is excited to join KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 to showcase new platform engineering features with a SDLC for platform engineers, and connect with the Crossplane community through talks, demos, and events. From booth meetups at the Upbound and Crossplane booth to our arcade night with Diagrid.

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March 24, 2025

Ana Margarita Medina

Unified Testing with Upbound: Smarter, Faster, More Efficient Crossplane Testing

Upbound has launched a new unified testing experience that streamlines both composition and end-to-end testing by integrating them directly into the Up CLI, improving efficiency and simplifying developer workflows. This release introduces new APIs, supporting dynamic dependencies, conditionals, language-native test authoring, and automated control plane provisioning and teardown.

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March 21, 2025

Hunsung Lee

Proven Platform Adoption Strategies

Effective platform adoption goes beyond technical excellence—it requires strategic communication, seamless onboarding, and continuous user engagement. Discover proven adoption patterns, real-world examples, and key strategies to drive internal platform success.

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March 13, 2025

Markus Schweig

An Update on Upbound’s Official Providers

Upbound explains how we plan to supplement commercial Official Providers with new community-based edge releases from the same source, ensuring the community has continued access to high-quality Providers without needing a subscription to Upbound.

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February 25, 2025

Craig D Wilhite

Introducing "function-azresourcegraph" for Crossplane: Query Azure Resources With Ease

As cloud infrastructure grows in complexity, managing and querying resources across multiple environments becomes increasingly challenging. Crossplane, the open-source multicloud control plane, has been a game-changer in simplifying infrastructure management. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new addition to the Crossplane ecosystem: the function-azresourcegraph function, now available on GitHub.

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February 13, 2025

Yury Tsarev
Yury Tsarev, Vinish Soman

Upcoming Changes to Upbound Official Packages

Starting March 25, 2025, Upbound is implementing updates to the access policies for Official Packages on the Upbound Marketplace. These changes ensure long-term sustainability while providing the Crossplane community with free access to the latest versions, including security patches, and granting paid customers enhanced access to all package versions within the maintenance window. Read on for a detailed breakdown of what’s changing, why we’re making this shift, and how to prepare.

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January 15, 2025

Craig D Wilhite

Empowering Platform Engineers: Upbound’s 2024 Achievements

Explore Upbound’s transformational year in 2024! From innovative Crossplane tools to deeper community engagement, discover how we’ve empowered platform engineers and advanced cloud-native technologies.

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December 19, 2024

Upbound

From Cloud to On-Prem: Leverage Upbound for Unified Resource Management

Managing on-prem resources? Upbound offers declarative control for OpenStack, hybrid clouds, and more, lowering cognitive load for developers.

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December 18, 2024

Jay Miracola