Crossplane
Shares rank 8 of 10 IaC tools by recommenders
Lets platform teams manage cloud resources through Kubernetes APIs and offer developers standard self-service interfaces, though critics cite provider gaps and API server load.
Lets platform teams manage cloud resources through Kubernetes APIs and offer developers standard self-service interfaces, though critics cite provider gaps and API server load.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Standard APIs for large platform teams
“Its more of a usecase for large platform teams that want to automate and enable hundreds of teams with thousands of disparate cloud resources.”
Comment from 5 Jan 2026 in “OpenGitOps” “standardizes a lot of features across the board and gives developers a set of APIs to use”
Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon” Works well despite rough edges
“I've had pretty good luck with Crossplane, it has its warts, but it removes the lack of obviousness that accompanies Terraform.”
Comment from 24 Aug 2026 in “AI and Infrastructure Engineering” “Most of the time it works well, but sometimes custom Golang is required”
Comment from 3 Aug 2026 in “How Crossplane providers work and how to implement one”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Adds significant complexity
“If you want maximal complexity use Crossplane.”
Comment from 10 Dec 2025 in “The future of Terraform CDK”
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See all 10 IaC tools, rankedWhat people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“put a lot of load on the k8s-apiserver and etcd”
“the providers we required were a major let down”
“I've had pretty good luck with Crossplane, it has its warts, but it removes the lack of obviousness that accompanies Terraform.”
“Most of the time it works well, but sometimes custom Golang is required”
“Love learning about crossplane and diving into its internals”
“standardizes a lot of features across the board and gives developers a set of APIs to use”
“Its more of a usecase for large platform teams that want to automate and enable hundreds of teams with thousands of disparate cloud resources.”
“If you want maximal complexity use Crossplane.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.