The Open Source Way OpenMCP
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Sep 17, 2025 Johannes Ott and Maximilian Techritz, software engineers at SAP, delve into Open Managed Control Planes (OpenMCP), an innovative open-source project optimizing cloud orchestration with a singular declarative API. They discuss how OpenMCP harmonizes various Kubernetes tools like Crossplane and External Secrets, addressing recurring enterprise challenges. The duo shares valuable insights on deployment prerequisites and the benefits for multi-team enterprises, while highlighting the importance of community growth and contributions in open-source ecosystems.
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One Declarative API For Full Cloud Landscapes
- OpenMCP provides one declarative API to describe and maintain entire cloud landscapes across infra, databases, clusters, secrets and workloads.
- The control plane ensures declared desired state is kept and alerts owners when it cannot reconcile.
Recurring Enterprise Infra Fragmentation
- Many teams invent their own infrastructure tooling and waste time maintaining bespoke solutions instead of reusing common approaches.
- OpenMCP emerged after finding this recurring pattern and exploring CNCF tooling to harmonize solutions.
Describe Landscapes As Code On Kubernetes
- Describe the complete cloud landscape as code using Kubernetes and a harmonized set of open source controllers.
- Use established CNCF tools rather than custom CLIs to gain reuse, portability, and stability.
