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Get Upbound

Welcome to Upbound, the enterprise platform for Crossplane that helps you build autonomous infrastructure platforms at scale. Whether you're already using Open Source Crossplane or exploring control planes for the first time, Upbound provides the tools and services to take your infrastructure automation to the next level.

Upbound allows you to expose infrastructure across clouds, vendors, and systems through a single programmable API surface that works for humans and intelligent agents alike. Upbound powers this API surface with Upbound Crossplane 2.0 (UXP) - our next-generation control plane that delivers enterprise-grade reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Install Upbound Crossplane​

Install Upbound Crossplane (UXP) into a fresh Kubernetes cluster with Helm or the up CLI.

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Already running open source Crossplane? Don't run the commands below — follow the Upgrade Guide instead.

helm repo add upbound-stable https://charts.upbound.io/stable && helm repo update
helm install crossplane --namespace crossplane-system --create-namespace upbound-stable/crossplane --devel

New to Crossplane and Upbound?​

🚀 Install the Upbound CLI

  • Install the up CLI to gain access to all Upbound's tooling on your machine.
curl -sL "https://cli.upbound.io" | sh
Find more installation methods on the Up CLI installation guide.

What is Upbound?​

Upbound is the platform that helps platform engineers automate and build their platforms.

The power of the Upbound platform is the control plane. A control plane is software that controls other software by exposing custom APIs for your infrastructure to automatically maintain your desired state. Upbound's control plane framework lets you manage infrastructure and resources across clouds and services.

The value of control planes is building your own custom APIs to provision the resources your users need.

The control plane constantly monitors your cloud resources to meet the state you define in your custom APIs. You define your resources and Upbound parses, connects with the service, and manages the lifecycle on your behalf.

Next steps​

  • Follow the introduction guide to get started building your own control plane.
  • For OSS Crossplane users, follow the Upgrade guide.