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Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that transforms your cluster into
a **universal control plane**. Crossplane enables platform teams to assemble
infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher level self-service APIs
for application teams to consume, without having to write any code.

Crossplane extends your Kubernetes cluster to support orchestrating any
infrastructure or managed service. Compose Crossplane's granular resources into
higher level abstractions that can be versioned, managed, deployed and consumed
using your favorite tools and existing processes. [Install Crossplane]({{<ref "getting-started/install-configure" >}}) into any
Kubernetes cluster to get started.

Crossplane is a [Cloud Native Compute Foundation][cncf] project.

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[cncf]: https://www.cncf.io/