Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Graduation of Crossplane

Graduation marks Crossplane’s readiness for widespread use and its evolution from a control plane framework to groundwork for intelligent, secure, and scalable cloud operations and platform engineering Key Highlights: Crossplane has officially graduated within the CNCF project ecosystem, recognizing its maturity, wide adoption, and strong community, along with its importance in platform engineering. With over 3,000 contributors from more than 450 organizations, Crossplane ranks in the top 10% of all CNCF projects for contributor engagement and authorship. Crossplane has delivered over 100 releases, including the recent Crossplane v2.0, which introduces a more refined architecture for building full application control planes and enhances support for AI-driven operations. Crossplane is now a graduated CNCF project and is available for production use today. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – November 6, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the graduation of Crossplane , recognizing its maturity, wide adoption, and strong community momentum, along with its importance in cloud native platform engineering. Crossplane brings the universal contract of declarative APIs to cloud infrastructure, applications, and services. It turns infrastructure into programmable, policy-driven software, enabling both humans and intelligent agents to request and manage environments safely through APIs rather than scripts or tickets. As AI begins to drive the need for more operations, Crossplane’s architecture offers the predictability and safety required for automation. Its declarative model allows intelligent agents to operate cloud environments by targeting outcomes instead of executing instructions, helping bridge human-operated and AI-operated infrastructure. “Crossplane’s graduation marks a major milestone for cloud native and multi cloud platform engineering,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, CNCF. “Crossplane empowers teams to build secure, scalable internal platforms.