descant.cloud vs Crossplane

Extension of Crossplane

descant.cloud extends Crossplane by adding additional layer of abstraction on top of native Crossplane functionalities. This layer hides some complexities of Crossplane and also provides additional features.

New concepts

descant.cloud introduces additional concepts like relations between entities, which on one hand allows you to model your business domain and on the other hand reduces the amount of code needed to pass in your compositions.

descant.cloud manages dependencies for you - in blueprint you can create multiple resources that refer to each other as well as to related entities, and descant.cloud will automatically create corresponding Usage objects to ensure proper ordering and deletion prevention if one entity is used by other.

Superb web interface

Crossplane doesn't provide any graphical interface for managing resources. descant.cloud comes with a web interface that lets you create blueprints in a visual way, as well as to monitor resources and entities in real time.

It's also built with self-service in mind. That means your devops team can create reusable blueprints that other teams can use to create their cloud resources.