Crossplane expertise - from Switzerland

VSHN offers consulting, architecture design, implementation, training, and operational support for Crossplane. Whether you are evaluating Crossplane for the first time or running it in production, we bring hands-on experience to accelerate your project. Engagements are scoped to your needs - from a one-day architecture review to a multi-month platform build.

Crossplane is an open-source, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project that extends Kubernetes with the ability to provision and manage cloud infrastructure. It lets you define infrastructure resources - databases, networks, storage, managed services - as Kubernetes custom resources. Platform teams use Crossplane to build self-service infrastructure platforms with guardrails, while developers consume infrastructure using familiar Kubernetes APIs and GitOps workflows.

VSHN has deep Crossplane production experience and is listed as an official commercial vendor on https://crossplane.io/commercial/. We have built internal developer platforms, multi-cloud orchestration layers, and self-service provisioning systems for customers across Switzerland and Europe. This experience means we know which Crossplane patterns work at scale, how to structure Compositions for maintainability, and how to avoid common pitfalls that can cost teams weeks of debugging.

Yes. Migrating from Terraform to Crossplane is one of our core competencies. We assess your existing Terraform estate, design a migration strategy, build equivalent Crossplane Compositions, and execute the migration with minimal downtime for your running infrastructure. Many organisations move to Crossplane to unify their platform tooling on Kubernetes and benefit from continuous reconciliation instead of plan-and-apply workflows.

VSHN has hands-on production experience with Crossplane providers for cloudscale.ch and Exoscale, as well as Kubernetes, Helm, and SQL providers for in-cluster and database resources. We have also developed open-source Crossplane providers for these platforms. If your cloud provider has a Crossplane provider available, we can help you integrate it. Swiss cloud providers are a natural fit for organisations with data residency requirements.

Yes. VSHN works with specialist training partners to deliver hands-on Crossplane training for platform engineers and development teams. Training covers Crossplane architecture, provider configuration, Composition design, XRDs, testing strategies, and day-two operations. Sessions can be delivered on-site in Switzerland or remotely, tailored to your team's experience level and your specific infrastructure.

Crossplane and Terraform solve similar problems but take different approaches. Terraform uses a declarative HCL language and a plan-and-apply workflow. Crossplane uses the Kubernetes resource model with continuous reconciliation - infrastructure drifts are automatically corrected. Many organisations migrate from Terraform to Crossplane to unify their platform tooling on Kubernetes. VSHN can assist with migration planning and execution, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal downtime for your running infrastructure.

Yes. VSHN uses Crossplane extensively on APPUiO, our Swiss Kubernetes managed platform, to provision and manage customer infrastructure. This gives us deep, first-hand operational experience with Crossplane at scale - including upgrades, monitoring, managing state data at the GB scale, and incident response. Our production platform targets 99.99% availability, and Crossplane is a key component of how we deliver that SLA to our customers.

Contact us using the form below. Describe your project - whether it is an architecture review, a proof of concept, a production migration, or ongoing support. We provide a written scope and cost estimate in CHF estimate within one business day. There is no commitment at the scoping stage. Engagements typically start within one to two weeks of agreement.