Upbound has announced Upbound V3, a major expansion of its infrastructure platform designed to give enterprises a unified way to operate and govern cloud and AI infrastructure across clouds, data centers, and teams. The platform provides fleet-wide visibility, a unified API, and centralized governance for both engineers and AI agents.
Upbound V3 unifies infrastructure operations across control planes.
Hub provides unified API across control plane fleet.
Console offers unified web interface for human operators.
Unified identity and access model with fleet-wide permissions.
Upbound Insights gives live view across infrastructure estate.
Crossplane has 100M+ downloads with 1,000+ organizations in production.
Enterprise infrastructure is increasingly fragmented across business units, clouds, on-premises environments, and the tools individual teams have adopted. Each control plane manages its own part of that infrastructure, but organizations often lack a unified way to see what is running, understand its state, and consistently govern who or what can make changes. That challenge is becoming more urgent as AI agents begin operating infrastructure alongside engineers. Upbound V3 addresses that problem by bringing an organization's control planes together into a single platform.
Hub provides a unified API across an organization's control plane fleet, indexing resources so platform teams, developer portals, compliance systems, and AI agents can query what exists and understand its state without connecting to each control plane individually. Console provides a unified web interface for interacting with Upbound products and control planes. Upbound Insights gives platform teams a live view across their infrastructure estate. The platform introduces a unified identity and access model across the control plane fleet with single sign-on, fleet-wide role-based permissions, and centrally managed credentials. AI systems can be authenticated, scoped to specific permissions, and audited, with policy enforced where infrastructure changes occur.
"AI is changing not only how software gets built, but who operates the infrastructure underneath it," said Bassam Tabbara, CEO and Founder of Upbound. "Platform teams need a way to give engineers and AI agents access to infrastructure without creating another layer of fragmented tooling or sacrificing governance. Upbound V3 gives them one platform for operating their entire control plane fleet, whether the work is being done by a person, a pipeline or an agent."
About Upbound
Upbound is pioneering infrastructure platforms for the agentic AI era, serving Fortune 500 companies and platform engineers across more than 100 countries. The company empowers infrastructure and platform teams with intelligent control planes, based on Kubernetes and Crossplane, that provision, operate, and adapt so platforms are ready for both humans and AI agents. Upbound is the creator and primary maintainer of Crossplane, the popular open-source framework for building cloud-native control planes, with over 100 million downloads and adoption by more than 1,000 organizations in production worldwide.
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