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At GitLab we're really excited about the vision of Crossplane. Multi-cloud seems to be the future [0]. This is the missing technology to make that convenient. O
by sytse 8y ago
At GitLab we're really excited about the vision of Crossplane. Multi-cloud seems to be the future [0]. This is the missing technology to make that convenient. Our first step is to work with Bassam to become the first complex application deployed in this way. We already have a popular helm chart. But that doesn't set you up with things like object storage and a cloud managed databases (PostgreSQL and Redis).
After we make that work we will integrate Crossplane in Auto DevOps [1] so you achieve application portability for the apps you make in GitLab.
The most interesting thing to me is that Crossplane works outside Kubernetes since k8s is another service it will provision. Bassam his plan is to make crossplane + Kube-api more tightly integrated, maybe even a crossplaned at somepoint.
0. https://medium.com/gitlab-magazine/multi-cloud-maturity-model-2de185c01dd7 https://medium.com/gitlab-magazine/multi-cloud-maturity-mode...
1. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/ https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/
- drieddust 8y agoWhat is the business model of upbound/Crossplane? Product seems to be free.
- bassamtabbara 8y agohi bassam here (CEO @ Upbound). Our business model is still firming up, but we're thinking we would be hosting crossplanes among other things. We want the crossplane project to be community driven (and not vendor driven) and welcome other contributors (see our governance model).
- drieddust 8y agoThanks but aren't you worried about someone else hosting your product and competing with you.
- paulsutter 8y agoCrossplane could be one package that customers would not want to use directly from a major cloud provider. You'd never trust AWS/Google/etc to really give equal footing to a competitor. Separately, I'd prefer to trust the company behind the open source software as opposed to some other upstart. So this model may really work. One observation: Crossplane and Upbound seem a little too unrelated of names. Github has benefitted from being almost synonymous with git (admittedly, Github also created the opening for Gitlab at the same time).
- bassamtabbara 8y agoGreat response! Regarding naming we did not want to tie the company to a single project, not did we want the project to feel like a vendor driven project. So we went with different names completely :-)
- hvaoc 8y agoThanks for CrossPlane, this will work if you guys stay true to your mission. A frustrated cloud user. Personally I will support you guys and GitLab any day.
- sytse 8y agoI asked Bassam if it would be completely open source (and not open core like GitLab) in the architecture document [0]. He said it would be completely open source [1]. 0. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whncqdUeU2cATGEJhHvzXWC9xdK29Er45NJeoemxebo/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whncqdUeU2cATGEJhHvzXWC9... 1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bypp7unw8802gkr/Screenshot%202018-12-04%2011.51.18.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/bypp7unw8802gkr/Screenshot%202018-...