---
title: "Crossplane and Terraform: How They Differ, and How They Can Play Together"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/crossplane-and-terraform-how-they-differ-and-how-they-can-play-together-rhm4q0psk
source_url: https://deploy.equinix.com/blog/crossplane-and-terraform-how-they-differ-and-how-they-can-play-together/
type: article
source: "Equinix"
published: 2024-03-20T20:28:38.520Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "terraform", "iac", "crossplane"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 3
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Crossplane and Terraform: How They Differ, and How They Can Play Together

**[Equinix](https://daily.dev/sources/equinix)** · 10 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Learn about the differences between Crossplane and Terraform, their key features, architecture, configuration types, licensing and pricing models, support levels, ecosystems, and ideal use cases. Discover how they can be used together to leverage the strengths of both tools.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://deploy.equinix.com/blog/crossplane-and-terraform-how-they-differ-and-how-they-can-play-together/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@strupp1** · 0 upvotes

> Terraform is not open source anymore, as this article suggests. OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform intending to continue what Terraform started as open source software.

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Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#terraform](https://daily.dev/tags/terraform), [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac), [#crossplane](https://daily.dev/tags/crossplane)

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