Crossplane

Providers

and Configurations for

your control plane

The Upbound Marketplace is a central hub for finding Crossplane packages with verified content and auto-generated documentation. Upbound curates a set of Official Providers which are actively maintained and thoroughly tested to help you discover the best building blocks for your internal cloud platform.

Both Providers and Configurations are instrumental in building your internal cloud platform. Providers supply external APIs that you consume from cloud providers and other infrastructure providers. Compositions allow you to build your own API on top of those primitives, meaning that you are in control of what abstractions your platform offers and how they change over time.

Upbound authors, maintains, and supports a set of open source Crossplane providers called Official Providers. Upbound Official Providers are available for use under an Apache 2.0 license, with support requiring an additional service contract. Within the Marketplace, Official Providers are designated by the "Upbound Official" badge.

Partner Providers are authored and maintained by an Upbound partner. Providers in this category have been developed under the guidance and assistance of Upbound and have been verified by Upbound for code quality and test coverage.

Upbound packages each of the official providers for Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure as a “family.” A provider family organizes the provider's resources into unique packages, organized by a common set of services. Provider families reduce the resources required to install and run providers and improve performance over a single monolithic provider.

Authoring a Crossplane package is as simple as building and pushing an OCI image. Upbound has created example templates for building either a Provider or Configuration package to help you get started.

Once you have created an Upbound Account, the easiest way to build and push your package to the Marketplace is with the up CLI. It offers client-side validation and other helpful tooling to ensure a seamless experience.

The Upbound Marketplace is free for the entire Crossplane community. Documentation and public package consumption is free for all users, while adding your own only requires a free Upbound account.