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Eclipse Xpanse

Eclipse Xpanse is an open-source platform that enables provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure and services across multiple providers through a unified control plane (infrastructure automation / multi-cloud management).

  • Unified control plane for deploying and managing services across multiple cloud providers (multi-cloud management).
  • Service modeling and templates to describe deployable services in a cloud-agnostic way (infrastructure as code).
  • Automation of provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle operations for cloud services (infrastructure automation).
  • Integration hooks and APIs for embedding multi-cloud management into higher-level platforms or portals (platform integration).
  • Governance-oriented abstraction of cloud resources for consistent operations and policy enforcement (cloud governance).

More About Eclipse Xpanse

Eclipse Xpanse is an open-source project under the Eclipse Foundation that addresses multi-cloud service provisioning and management (multi-cloud management). The project focuses on providing a unified way to describe, deploy, and operate services across different infrastructure providers. It offers a control plane that abstracts away provider-specific APIs and enables platform builders and enterprise teams to work with cloud services using a consistent model and workflow.

At the core of Eclipse Xpanse is a service modeling approach that lets users define services in a provider-neutral format (infrastructure as code). These models describe the required infrastructure, configuration parameters, and operational characteristics of a service. Based on these definitions, Xpanse can orchestrate provisioning and lifecycle actions across supported cloud environments. This abstraction targets scenarios where the same service needs to run on different providers while maintaining a common operational interface.

The platform includes capabilities to automate end-to-end lifecycle tasks such as provisioning, modification, scaling, and deprovisioning of services (infrastructure automation). It coordinates the underlying cloud resources while exposing higher-level service constructs that are easier to consume by application teams or by upstream platforms. Xpanse is designed to integrate with external systems through APIs and connectors, so that portals, developer platforms, or managed service environments can trigger deployments and manage services without direct coupling to individual cloud APIs (platform integration).

From an enterprise perspective, Eclipse Xpanse positions itself as a layer for multi-cloud governance and consistency (cloud governance). By providing standardized service definitions and centralized control over deployments, it supports policy enforcement, compliance-aligned operations, and repeatable environments across providers. The abstraction model helps enterprises manage portability requirements and avoid per-provider divergence in operational practices, while still using the capabilities exposed by each infrastructure platform through Xpanse’s orchestration layer.

In a technical taxonomy, Eclipse Xpanse fits into categories such as multi-cloud management platforms, infrastructure orchestration tools, and service provisioning frameworks. It interfaces with cloud infrastructure APIs and can be combined with other components in a platform engineering stack, such as internal developer portals or Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. By offering a programmable control plane and service-centric abstraction, Eclipse Xpanse is suited for organizations that need a consistent way to deploy and operate services across heterogeneous cloud environments.