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🚀 KubeCon Salt Lake City, here we come! 🛠️ Upbound demos at Booth #258 🎤 Crossplane, Modelplane & platform engineering sessions 🕹️ Community arcade party on Nov 9 Come talk control planes, meet the community, and see what's next. www.upbound.io/events/kubec...

New to the AI inference stack? Start here. 🛠️ Viktor Farcic closes Inference Day with Inference 101, a practical look at the emerging inference stack and what platform engineers need to know. Nov 5, 10:30 AM PT / 7:30 PM CET. Free and virtual. Register here 👉 modelplane.ai/inference-day

Light users aren’t light. Scaling our self-hosted coding model from 10 engineers to 15, the users with the shortest prompts kept more requests in flight than the heavy ones. Project Champagne Part 5 on Modelplane → www.upbound.io/blog/drinkin...

Introducing Inference Day. 🚀 A free, live virtual event on the future of AI infrastructure. Nov 5, 8 to 11 AM PT. Kelsey Hightower, Viktor Farcic, and builders from NVIDIA, Red Hat, Tetrate, Ericsson, Qualcomm and Dash0. Every session is live. Save your spot 👉 modelplane.ai/inference-day

Every dashboard said the model was healthy. Our users said it was slow. Both were right. Project Champagne Part 4: how we monitor self-hosted models on @modelplaneai.bsky.social . Read -> www.upbound.io/blog/drinkin...

Before you blame the model, check the eval. We tested self-hosted models against Claude on our CVE-fixing agent. Our first harness scored Claude 0.00 where weaker models scored 1.00. Project Champagne Part 3 on @modelplaneai.bsky.social → www.upbound.io/blog/drinkin...

The expensive inference failures don't throw an error. A stream returned 200 and stopped mid-answer. A model ran out of GPU memory nine times in four days, and the gateway never saw it. Project Champagne Part 2: two POCs on @modelplaneai.bsky.social. www.upbound.io/blog/drinkin...

Your platform team is about to become an inference team. So we started with ourselves: coding agents, CVE remediation and chat on @modelplaneai.bsky.social. The primitives are new. The job feels familiar. → www.upbound.io/blog/drinking-our-own-champagne-what-it-takes-to-own-your-intelligence

Insights told us 230 resources were broken. Hub, new in v3, told us why. One token, no kubectl context. Claude grouped 230 failures into 11 missing Secrets. One fix cleared 61. → www.upbound.io/blog/upbound...

New in Upbound v3: Insights. One live view of every resource across every connected control plane, now including the Kubernetes clusters below them. Answer a compliance or security question from a single view instead of scripting across systems one at a time. → www.upbound.io/blog/announc...

@modelplaneai.bsky.social v0.3 is out. Serve the Anthropic Messages API end to end and run Claude Code on GPUs you own. Plus Vultr as a fifth cluster provider and per-cluster credentials for multi-account fleets. Same declarative pattern as Crossplane, one layer up. → modelplane.ai/blog/modelpl...

Upbound signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter. Open weights decide who owns the model. A control layer decides who owns the fleet that runs it. Crossplane for cloud, Modelplane for inference. Read → aka.ms/OpenLetter

Rented intelligence is cheap until it isn't. Our Claude Code usage runs 13x the seat price, and Uber, Tesla, and Meta are all capping engineers now. Every ecosystem converges on a neutral control layer. Inference is next. That's @modelplaneai.bsky.social . → modelplane.ai/blog/ai-codi...

Cluster-level inference tooling is fine. It just doesn't help you orchestrate the GPUs you own. Nobody at scale runs one cluster. The fix: treat the ones you own as one pool. That's the fleet-level API we designed. How we built it → modelplane.ai/blog/how-we-...

@modelplaneai.bsky.social v0.2 is out: Nebius and @microsoft.com Azure AKS as cluster providers, weighted routing for safe rollouts, and cluster taints to reserve or drain capacity. Same declarative pattern as @crossplane.io, one layer up. Built in the open. → modelplane.ai/blog/modelpl...

Introducing @modelplaneai.bsky.social: the open source control plane for AI inference. Built on Crossplane, it operates your GPU fleet as a unified inference platform. Any model, any engine, any infra. In Early Development. We’re building in the open. Join us → modelplane.ai

Crossplane maintainers will be at #KubeConEU booth 485 next week. If you’ve got questions, ideas, or just want to meet others working on platform engineering, come say hi. We’re also running live demos and would love to see what you’re working on. www.upbound.io/events/kubec...

Join Upbound and #Crossplane sessions at #KubeConEU where teams from Allianz, Sony, Asana + more are sharing real stories of Crossplane in production. Join the conversation at our: 🎟️ Sessions 📍 Booth #485 🍻 Crossplane Community Party utm.guru/umNIo

Want to see actual live AI demos? Join us at 9 AM PT for Cloud Native Live with the CNCF, Crossplane 2.0 – AI-Driven Control Loops - Zero-code Kubernetes controller - LLM-powered control loops - AI-driven AWS DB autoscaling Register here: utm.guru/ulS6k

Global team kickoff in Cancún 🇲🇽 and the momentum is 🔥 Big strategy. Major growth ahead. We worked hard, saw cenotes and Mayan ruins, aligned on big bets, and we’re hiring! This year is going to be BIG. Come build with us 🚀 utm.guru/ulJ6s

Know the security risk before you deploy. Vulnerability Summaries in Upbound Marketplace show CVEs at a glance — no scans, no guesswork. Learn more & see it in action in this short video → bit.ly/4klPQaN

AI-native infrastructure must reliably translate intent into execution, without humans becoming the bottleneck. We’ve been reducing friction from first click to real usage with unified navigation, usage-based pricing, and self-service licensing. Learn more about the latest features: utm.guru/uku5F

🚀 New in the Upbound Marketplace: Vulnerability Summaries See CVEs for your Crossplane Package versions before deployment. CVSS-based visibility, no scans or image pulls. See risk before you deploy → utm.guru/ujxJm

Stuck writing a Kubernetes controller? What if you could build one with zero code, in plain English? Our latest post shows how Crossplane Operations + LLMs & AI enable a code-free controller that watches & enforces desired state. utm.guru/ujwos

Want to know how it could be used in the Kubernetes ecosystem? Check out github.com/upbound/kube... on Github and @luxas.dev's talks on the Cedar at Speakerdeck: speakerdeck.com/luxas

Fine-grained access control is hard to build. Cedar, a CNCF sandbox project, centralizes the complexity w/role-, relation-, and attribute-based models, a typed schema + editor hints, and analyzable policies. Learn how we push the boundaries of #Kubernetes control plane access controls. #KCD #CNCF

#KubeCon NA 2025 brought huge momentum for platform engineering and AI. Big week for Upbound with Crossplane 2.0 and graduation 🎓, packed demos, great sessions, and incredible community energy. Catch recordings of the talks and the workshop, and see you in Amsterdam! ✈️🇳🇱 utm.guru/ujotv

Satya's recent @dwarkesh.bsky.social podcast revealed their AI strategy: avoid betting on a single generation. Multi-cloud took a decade. Multi-AI might take 3 years. www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-...

Google’s new report shows AI only works when your platform is strong. That’s why we built @crossplane.io and @upbound.io : declarative APIs for apps, platforms, and infra. Agentic AI depends on this. If your platform isn’t ready, your AI won’t be either. services.google.com/fh/files/mis...

Don't miss our last session at #KubeConAtlanta w/Upbound & AWS speakers. 🎤 11–11:30 — Tools & Strategies for Making the Most of #Kubernetes Access Control Stop by Booth 940 after for live demos + 1:1s on #Upbound #Crossplane 2.0 — the smarter way to run Crossplane at scale.

Final day of #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon NA! 🚀 Stop by Booth 940 after for live demos + 1:1s on Upbound Crossplane 2.0 — the smarter way to run Crossplane at scale. 👉 Book time before the week’s over: utm.guru/ujhLR #Crossplane #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering

🍻 Meet us after #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon ⛳ Celebrate Crossplane’s CNCF Graduation at Puttshack! Space is limited — grab your invite 🎟️ *For KubeCon attendees only 👉 utm.guru/ujlNE #Crossplane #Upbound #PlatformEngineering #CNCF #KubeCon

Kick off #KubeCon week at #PlatEngDay! 🚀 Stop by Table Z36 to meet the Upbound team + Crossplane maintainers. We’ll be talking all things IDP, platform engineering, and how Upbound Crossplane 2.0 helps teams scale smarter. 💬 Expert Q&A 💡 Real-world platform insights 🎁 Exclusive swag

It’s official; Crossplane is now a #CNCF graduated project, and we have something special for the #Crossplane community at #KubeConAtlanta! 🏌️ Mini golf. Food. Drinks. Good vibes. 🎟️ First 100 guests get special swag. Want in? RSVP here → utm.guru/ujknX #KubeConNA #KubeCon

🍨 What do ice cream and @crossplane.io have in common? @medina.bsky.social shares how Upbound Crossplane 2.0 brings intelligence, reliability, and a sprinkle of fun to platform engineering. 🎥 Grab a spoon and dig in: youtu.be/9e6cx1AwPAE #Crossplane #CNCF #CloudNative #PlatformEngineering

We’re headed to Atlanta for #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon North America 2025! Meet the Upbound team at Booth 940 to explore Crossplane 2.0, built to simplify and accelerate platform engineering. Join our sessions, workshops, and community party! 📅 Nov 10–13 📍Atlanta ➡️ utm.guru/ujj7z

See what’s new with the Upbound team at #KubeConAtlanta! 📍 Booth 940 💡 Live demos, hands-on features, & exclusive swag 🤝 Chat with the creators of Crossplane 🎟️ Access to invite-only events for attendees all week Book your 1:1 early → utm.guru/ujhLR

We used AI to break down a Crossplane monolithic provider into 19 modular, family-scoped providers, allowing us to cut memory and operational overhead while boosting efficiency. 🛠️ Learn how Claude helped us architect it:

A big step in our efforts for graduation of the Crossplane project! The due diligence has now been published - feel free to show love for Crossplane with reactions on the application and DD linked below! 👍 ❤️ 🎉 🚀 Application: github.com/cncf/toc/iss... Due diligence: github.com/cncf/toc/pul...

We’re excited to welcome Sarah Strobhar as Upbound’s new CRO! 🎉 With experience scaling AI/ML at AWS and early-stage startups, Sarah will help us accelerate the adoption of AI-native infrastructure platforms and bring the Intelligent Control Plane vision to life. 🔗 Press Release: utm.guru/ui3cS

We couldn't be more happy to announce the release of Crossplane v2.0! This massive release is the culmination of years of production usage, feedback, and lessons from our amazing community. Read all the details in the blog post and get started with 2.0 today! blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...

🚀 It’s here. The highly anticipated Crossplane 2.0 has landed. Today, we launched Upbound Crossplane 2.0: ⚡ AI-native ops ⚡ Dev tooling + Web UI ⚡ Enterprise runtime Run infrastructure at AI speed. 🔗 utm.guru/uiZLI

Congrats to Emmanuel Asekhame, the winner of our guessing game! Please stop by booth 113 today to pick up your prize, Beats headphones. Thanks to all who participated, especially to those who got creative and used AI. Better luck at our next conference, KubeCon Atlanta. #GartnerAPPS

📍Visit us at #GartnerAPPS at Booth #113 to experience: ✅ Live control plane-powered platform demos ✅ 1:1 expert guidance on DevEx, Kubernetes, APIs, and Backstage ✅ Event exclusive white paper ✅ Daily swag & raffles 🎯 Want to save time? Book a 1:1 meeting now - utm.guru/uinQ8

🚨 New whitepaper for exec tech leaders! 🚨 "Unlocking Enterprise Velocity Through Platform Engineering" Learn how control planes can help accelerate innovation and reduce complexity without starting from scratch. 📍Exclusive at Booth 113 at #GartnerAPPS #PlatformEngineering #DevEx #Kubernetes

🚀 Go Templates + Upbound = Up Level Your Platform Engineering Define your control planes using YAML and Go templates, including VSCode integration, autocompletion, schema validation, and testing. Learn how to port over an KCL Function to Go Templates in this tutorial: utm.guru/uipwt

👋 Catch us at #GartnerAPPS at Booth 113 to talk platform strategy, not just products. From unifying dev experience to cutting cloud waste, we’ll show you how Upbound can solve the real stuff: velocity, security, scaling, and more. 🚨 Book a 1:1 utm.guru/uinRb