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Consider Backplane Cloud Abstraction API as the 'engine' to drive multi-cloud adoption, enablement and governance, allowing you to consume cloud in an unopinionated way. Providing maximum flexibility and control for your cloud strategy.
Backplane is solving the problem of multiple cloud governance and integration complexity, by providing a single abstracted and standardised format for Cloud Account provisioning, Cost, Access and Policy data retrieval.
Backplane is for Cloud Engineers, Platform Engineers and organisations adopting, enabling and governing multiple cloud environments.
Yes. Backplane is Open Source and Free for the community to use. We are actively encouraging community members to contribute to the API to ensure good coverage across all service providers.
Building an Internal Developer Platform is a common use case. Here, the complexity of integrating to 'n' Cloud platforms is vastly simplified with a single integration point by way of the Abstraction API. Allow rapid provisioning of Cloud Accounts and data feeds on Cost, Access and Policy.
Backplane.dev is the Open Source arm of Backplane Software Ltd, which focuses on building Cloud tooling. Backplane.dev will remain Free and Open Source.
Backplane.dev and the Cloud Abstraction API is fully Open Sourced by Backplane Software Ltd. A UK-based company. Backplane began as a project to simplify multi-cloud adoption, enablement and governance. Its author, Lewis Sheridan released it to the Open Source community on the 17th July 2024
Yes, we welcome any contributions to the project. An important part of the Backplane philosophy are its people, their passion, and of course the purpose of the project. If you find value in it, and it helps you and your organisation, that alone puts a smile on our faces. If you want to contribute financially, that too will help us in our mission to make Backplane the universal API to simplify cloud adoption!
Bring some energy, passion and coding skills and I look forward to the community building upon the base API to make Backplane something great! Take a look at the Backlog and feel free to contribute, we look forward to your Pull Request!
