Other similar projects
A few other Kubernetes-based infrastructure automation projects share common interests and support similar use cases such as Crossplane. These projects extend Kubernetes with APIs and custom controllers identical to Crossplane architecture. This section will look at those tools to have a comprehensive comparison with Crossplane. The following is a list of a few such projects:
- Kubernetes’ Service Catalog by the open service broker enables life cycle management of cloud resources from Kubernetes. Like Crossplane, it works as a Kubernetes controller extension. But it does not have a solid framework to compose infrastructure recipes with policy guardrails. Also, we can’t model the API for different team boundaries. The open service broker Kubernetes Service Catalog is not designed for platform teams to build reusable recipes with encoded policies. Typically, this means that we have to struggle with policy enforcement and a high cognitive load...
