Upbound, the control plane company behind the popular open source project Crossplane, announced the general availability of its managed control planes technology, enabling platform teams to power their internal developer platforms at scale.A significant number of enterprises invest in building their own internal shared services platform and layering that on top of cloud computing. They are doing this to increase developer productivity and improve their security and controls across the increasingly heterogeneous set of infrastructure they are managing. Control planes are at the center of these new platforms, and Crossplane is the leading CNCF project in this space.Bassam Tabbara, CEO and founder of Upbound, discusses the news and how control planes are ushering in the next era of cloud.