Upbound Resource Roundup: September 2023
Welcome to this month's resource roundup. This month, we have introduced an exciting addition to our ecosystem, offering you new ways to enhance your cloud-native endeavors. Alongside this, we have also created some of the freshest community resources and upcoming events. Dive in to stay ahead in the world of cloud-native technology.
New Resources From Upbound
Using Upbound to roll out Cluster-as-a-service to your developers – Upbound makes Cluster-as-a-Service–and many other self-service deployments of cloud-native infrastructure and applications–easy for developers and manageable for the platform team. Read this blog to find out why it’s essential for any platform team and how it’s done!
Turning Cloud Promises Into Reality! – Discover two popular and successful ways real teams use Upbound to save time and increase developer velocity by leveraging control planes to do the heavy lifting for them. Plus, you’ll learn how you can abstract away the complexity of cloud-native and offer an easy-to-use Kubernetes Cluster-as-a-Service solution for your internal development teams.
Upbound Contributes Control Plane Provider Technology to Crossplane – We’re thrilled to have donated Upbound’s control plane provider technology, Upjet, to the open source Crossplane project so that it can be officially governed under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Introducing Spaces: Bring Upbound Managed Control Planes into your own environment – We announced a new feature of Upbound: Spaces. Spaces is a new self-hosting feature of Upbound’s flagship product for platform teams to deploy managed control planes in their self-managed environments.
Upbound Spaces Live Stream Demo – View this recorded live stream and demo hosted by Product Marketing Manager Aaron Newcomb and Principal Distributed Systems Engineer Ben Howard, where they revealed Upbound Spaces. They show a demo for customers to deploy Upbound in their own environments.
Upbound Spaces 1-page Overview – Upbound Spaces is a new feature of Upbound that allows teams to run managed control planes in their own self-hosted environments — whether that may be on AWS, Azure, GKE, or on-prem — in addition to Upbounds SaaS service. Anywhere you can run Kubernetes, you can now run an Upbound Space. This is especially useful for environments that have restrictions due to compliance or regulatory needs.
Product Updates
We’ve had some powerful product updates. Here are some changes that will help you improve your infrastructure management:
New from Upbound: Improving the scalability of the control plane explorer, integrate Argo CD with managed control planes – This latest product update covers an enhanced control plane explorer built for large scale object management and how users can integrate Argo CD GitOps flows with managed control planes.
New from Upbound: Ready-made Cluster as a Service Configuration and Managed Control Planes in Your Own Environment – Our latest releases include a configuration to power your Cluster-as-a-Service offering as well as Upbound Spaces, a new feature that allows you to run your own Upbound managed control planes in any hyperscale cloud provider or data center.
What’s Next?
How do Crossplane & Upbound fit into the bigger picture? In today's rapid-paced business ecosystem, AI/ML isn't just an edge—it's essential. Companies are struggling to standardize AI/ML infrastructure with reference architectures that are easily deployed and meet security, compliance, and policy requirements.
The future is unfolding at breakneck speed, and a control plane is the catalyst that ensures companies don't just adapt these new technologies but thrive. See how in our upcoming webinar with the Linux Foundation, where our head of engineering, Sumbry, explores control planes in the context of AI on October 11, 2023 at 8 AM PT!
