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[Crossplane Hosted] Build your own cloud platform with Crossplane featuring Jared Watts, Upbound

[Crossplane Hosted] Build your own cloud platform with Crossplane featuring Jared Watts, Upbound

Published Date January 1, 2021

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Jared Watts is a Founding Engineer at Upbound and a co-creator for the open source Crossplane (https://crossplane.io) and Rook (https://rook.io) projects.

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