Get Upbound
Welcome to Upbound, a platform for building autonomous infrastructure platforms that provision, operate, and adapt without human intervention.
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 a control plane called Crossplane.
If you're new to Upbound and Crossplane, this section guides you through the essential resources to get started.
Follow the guides to help you get started and learn how Upbound can help you build your own infrastructure platform.
For more advanced concepts and scenarios in Upbound, see Guides.
🚀 Sign up and install the Upbound CLI
- Create an account on Upbound by registering your organization.
- Install the up CLI to gain access to all Upbound's tooling on your machine.
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.