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Welcome to the Crossplane documentation. Crossplane is a control plane framework
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for platform engineering.
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- Crossplane lets you build control planes to manage your apps, infrastructure, or
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- anything else. It lets you design the APIs and abstractions that your users use
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- to interact with your control planes.
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+ Crossplane lets you build control planes to manage your cloud native software.
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+ It lets you design the APIs and abstractions that your users use to interact
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+ with your control planes.
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Crossplane has a rich ecosystem of extensions that make building a control plane
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faster and easier. It's built on Kubernetes, so it works with all the Kubernetes
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** A control plane is software that controls other software.**
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Control planes expose an API. You use the API to tell the control plane what
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- software it should deploy and how - this is your _ desired state_ . It could be
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- any cloud native software, like an app, a load balancer, or a GitHub repository.
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+ software it should configure and how - this is your _ desired state_ .
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- The control plane deploys your software, then monitors it throughout its
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+ A control plane can configure any cloud native software. It could deploy an app,
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+ create a load balancer, or create a GitHub repository.
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+ The control plane configures your software, then monitors it throughout its
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lifecycle. If your software ever _ drifts_ from your desired state, the control
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plane automatically corrects the drift.
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