Internal Developer Platform

Application Configuration Management

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Application Configuration Management #

TLDR; Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) overcome the problem of Application Configuration Management by enabling you to manage application configuration as code in a standardized, dynamic and scalable way. This has a significant impact on maintaining, debugging, and governing application configuration.

Application Configuration Management can be a real nightmare. While handling application code is a well-standardized process in today’s world (some of you might remember the time before Git or even before CVS and SVN), managing application configuration is not. Whatever your approach, in the end you are left with a number of config files (typically in YAML format) that you and your teams/colleagues need to maintain. Typically this is a simple task as long as there are no substantial changes and as long as everything works. But the tasks can easily get out of control if the one colleague that set up everything left and the setup stopped working or needs to be extended.

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What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?

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What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)? #

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is built by a platform team to build golden paths and enable developer self-service. An IDP consists of many different techs and tools, glued together in a way that lowers cognitive load on developers without abstracting away context and underlying technologies. Following best practices, platform teams treat their platform as a product and build it based on user research, maintaining and continuously improving it.

Events

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Events #

Community events are a great way to connect with other developers, to exchange ideas, and learn more about Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). All are welcome.

Join the IDP community #

Connect with fellow community members
Get answers to your technical questions
Find and share useful resources
Stay up-to-date with the latest IDP news
Find or host a meetup in your area!

Upcoming events #

Please check the meetup groups for online events.

Infrastructure Orchestration

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Infrastructure Orchestration #

TLDR; An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is the sum of the tech and tools that an Ops, DevOps or platform engineering team glues together to build golden paths for developers. All the existing tools and infrastructure are part of the IDP, they integrate with it and they are orchestrated by the IDP to enable Continuous Delivery or even Continuous Deployment (CD) processes.

An Internal Developer Platform should always follow a Platform as a Product approach. This is especially important when you cannot build an Internal Developer Platform green field, but need to put it into an existing setup. An Internal Developer Platform typically integrates with your existing CI pipelines on the one side and your hardware infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes clusters, databases, file storage) on the other side. This is also one of the big differences to PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) solutions, which typically also includes all the infrastructure (very often based on proprietary technology stacks) out of the box.

Why use an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?

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Why build and use an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)? #

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) have a tremendously positive impact on the velocity and happiness of teams. They enable developer self-service while keeping cognitive load low. They enhance developer productivity, improve developer experience, reduce manual ops, lower costs and maintenance overhead. On an organizational level, IDPs drive standardization by design, leading to a much more maintainable and scalable setup. IDPs establish a clear separation of concerns between platform teams that set the standards and developers who are enabled to follow golden paths.

Articles

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Articles #

Here we provide a repository of the latest and greatest blog posts and articles all about Internal Developer Platforms (IDP). Wrote an amazing piece and like to have it included? Submit a pull request!

2026 #

The inflection point: How platform engineering serves the world Sam Barlien, Researcher @ Weave Intelligence
Platform engineering and the future of software Luca Galante, Lead Analyst @ Weave Intelligence
Platform engineering as the foundation for AI Luca Galante, Lead Analyst @ Weave Intelligence
10 FinOps tools platform engineers should evaluate for 2026 Ajay Chankramath, CEO @ Platformetrics
The biggest challenges platform engineering teams are facing in 2026 Sam Barlien, Head of Ecosystem @ Platform Engineering
Platform engineering maturity in 2026: What the data tells us Mallory Haigh, Principal Platform Therapist @ Platform Engineering
10 observability tools platform engineers should evaluate in 2026 Sam Barlien, Head of Ecosystem @ Platform Engineering
Being a platform engineer in 2026: Career reality check Mallory Haigh, Principal Platform Therapist @ Platform Engineering
Policy as code: The platform engineer’s guide to automated governance and compliance Ajay Chankramath, CEO @ Platformetrics & Bryan Oliver, Principal Consultant @ Thoughtworks
The platform engineering reality check: Is your initiative on track? Mallory Haigh, Principal Platform Therapist @ Platform Engineering
Five product management principles for internal developer platforms Karolina Semiuk, Education & Partner Programs @ Platform Engineering
Why platform engineering will eat the world Kaspar von Grünberg & Luca Galante, Lead Analyst @ Weave Intelligence
Platform engineering interview guide: What you need to know to land your next role Mallory Haigh, Principal Platform Therapist @ Platform Engineering
Why is the demand for platform engineers exploding? Kaspar von Grünberg & Luca Galante, Lead Analyst @ Weave Intelligence
The four levels of agentic software development in the enterprise Kaspar von Grünberg, Luca Galante, Ajay Chankramath & Mallory Haigh @ Weave Intelligence
Operationalizing AI coding agents in regulated industries Sam Barlien, Researcher @ Weave Intelligence

2025 #

New reference architecture for an AI/ML Internal Developer Platform on GCP Luca Galante, Core Contributor @ Platform Engineering
Hot trends in platform engineering for AI: Two pathways, one transformation Mallory Haigh, Principal Platform Therapist @ Platform Engineering
10 Platform engineering predictions for 2026 Luca Galante, Core Contributor @ Platform Engineering
AI needs platform engineering: Just ask Thoughtworks and Google Sam Barlien, Head of Ecosystem @ Platform Engineering
Platform engineering: A golden era for service providers Luca Galante, Core Contributor @ Platform Engineering
The Product Operating Model for Platform Engineering teams Jordan Chernevm Technical Executive
DORA 2025: Faster, But Are We Any Better? Alan Shimel, Founder @ DevOps.com
DevOps Evolution: From Movement to Platform Engineering in the AI Era Tom Smith, Industry Analyst @ DevOps.com
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Misses the Point Vilas Veeraraghavan and Bryan Finster, Platform Thought Leaders
Confidence: Spotify Gives Developers a Platform for Experiments Jennifer Riggins, Contributor @ The New Stack
Why Up to 70% of Platform Engineering Teams Fail to Deliver Impact Jennifer Riggins, Contributor @ The New Stack
AI-First Platform Engineering: 3 Signals From PlatformCon Sylvain Kalache, Head of AI Labs @ Rootly
What are golden paths? A guide to streamlining developer workflows Mallory Haigh, Workshop host @ Platform Engineering
3 platform engineering predictions for 2025 Luca Galante, Core contributor @ Platform Engineering

2024 #

Hype to Reality: Platform engineering wins in 2024 Luca Galante, Core contributor @ Platform Engineering
Top 10 platform engineering tools to use in 2025 Sam Barlien, Platform Engineering Community Manager
Combining practical Platform Engineering with Crossplane and ArgoCD Jonas Hecht, Solution Architect at Codecentric
Platform engineering is the industrialization of software development Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
Building an Internal Developer Platform: 4 Essential Pillars Ritesh Patel, Co-Founder & VP of Products at Nirmata
How to Define Engineering Standards Sam Nixon, Head of Product at Roadie
Platform engineering: Best practices in “Vendor engineering” Jordan Chernev, Senior Technology Executive
Get Certified in Platform Engineering, Starting Aug. 6 Todd R. Weis, Journalist
Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure Daniel Bryant, Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso
Your engineering organization is too expensive Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs Robert Mitchell, Author
The role of infrastructure teams in the platform engineering era Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
Building a Platform Team at a 153-Year-Old Company Jennifer Riggins, Journalist at TNS
How to build your platform engineering team Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
PlatformCon: How Spotify Manages Infrastructure with GitOps Joab Jackson, Senior Editor at TNS
Platform Engineering Dies in 4 Weeks Kaspar von Grünberg, Founder and CEO of Humanitec
Why 2024 will be the year of the Platform Orchestrator Sören Martius, CEO at Terramate
Unveiling the secrets of a successful journey: Mercado Libre’s Internal Developer Platform Juliano Marcos Martins, Senior Technical Manager at Mercado Libre
Creating Infra Using Backstage Templates, Terraform and GitHub actions Sagar Parmar, Sr. SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
Decoding golden paths: The highway for your developers Atulpriya Sharma, Sr. Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies

2023 #

WTF?! Internal Developer Platform vs Internal Developer Portal vs PaaS Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
How to design your repository structures to nail platform engineering Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
Port vs Backstage - Choosing Your Internal Developer Portal Vaibhav Gupta, Sr. SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
Taking the Product Approach to Building Platforms Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
Unlocking the Basics of Port Ubaid Ansari, SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
How to Fail at Platform Engineering? Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
Mastering Platform Engineering with Kratix Nitin Naidu, SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
Starting Platform Engineering Journey with Backstage Vaibhav Gupta, Sr. SRE at InfraCloud Technologies
Decoding Workload Specification for Effective Platform Engineering Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
Platform Orchestration: an industry game-changer? Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO and Co-founder at Hunmanitec
Platform Engineering 101: Get Started with Platforms Atulpriya Sharma, Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies
9 Steps to Platform Engineering Hell Luca Galante, Product at Humanitec
DevOps to Platform Engineering: How We Got Here? Vishal Biyani, Founder and CTO at InfraCloud Technologies
Platform Engineering Reduces Cognitive Load and Raises Developer Productivity Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
Bringing together FinOps, DevOps, and platform engineering Ajay Chankramath, Head of Platform Engineering at Thoughtworks North America
State of Platform Engineering Report Vol 2 Humanitec
Platform orchestration, Technology Radar Volume 29 Thoughtworks
AI is changing the future of platform engineering. Are you ready? Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
Shift Down to the Platform, not Left to the Dev Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
Platform engineering maturity model: what we learned from our survey of ~300 orgs Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
Platform Engineering: What’s Hype and What’s Not? Tommy McClung
Build Your IDP at Light Speed with a Platform Reference Architecture Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
The Modernization Imperative: Shifting left is for suckers. Shift down instead Richard Seroter, Director of Outbound Strategy and Engagement at Google
PlatformCon 2023: Bigger and Even Better Aeris Stewart, Community Manager at Humanitec
Pave Golden Paths with Platform Engineering Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
How to scale enterprise-wide Kubernetes adoption Turja Narayan Chaudhuri, Assistant Director , Cloud PracticeAssistant Director, Cloud Practice at EY
Step One to Successfully Building Your Platform: Building It Together Lee Ditiangkin, Director of Product / Engineering at Nvidia
7 core components of an Internal Developer Platform Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
How Platform Engineering Makes Software Sustainable Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
Platform Engineering Is Not about Building Fancy UIs Kaspar von Grünberg, Founder and CEO at Humanitec
Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — and How to Avoid Them Aaron Erickson, Co-Founder and CEO at Orgspace
UX on Platform Engineering Fernando Villalba, Senior Tech Evangelist at Humanitec
What Is Platform Engineering? Role, Principles & Benefits James Walker, Founder at Heron Web

2022 #

Key findings from implementing Backstage for more than 100k developers Taras Mankovski, CEO at The Frontside Software
Sunrise - Zalando’s Internal Developer Platform Henning Jacobs, Executive Principal Engineer at Zalando
Why we advocate for workload-centric over infrastructure-centric development Susa Tünker, Product Manager at Humanitec & Score
Hitting the right level of abstractions when building an Internal Developer Platform Jon Skarpeteig, Tribe Lead Global Platform at Signicat
The Challenge of Cognitive Load in Platform Engineering: A Discussion with Paula Kennedy Paula Kennedy, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Syntasso
Good Platform Engineering: What It Is and How to Make It Work For You, Fernando Villalba, Senior Tech Evangelist at Humanitec
Platform Engineering: Creating your Internal Developer Platform (Part 2), Fernando Villalba, Senior Tech Evangelist at Humanitec
The Internal Developer Platform Revolution: what every CTO should know Michel Murabito, Developer Advocate at Mia-Platform
How Low-Code Platforms Can Help Cloud Native Developers) Vinothini Raju, CEO at gopaddle
How GE burned $7B on their platform (and how to avoid doing the same) Steve Pereira, CEO at Visible Value Stream Consulting
Why it is worth investing in Product Management for Internal Developer Platforms Aaron Erickson, Co-founder and CEO at Orgspace
DevOps Is Dead. Embrace Platform Engineering Aeris Stewart, Community at Humanitec
Is Platform Engineering putting an end to DevOps and SRE? Paolo Martinoli, Technical Writer at Mia-Platform
What is Dynamic Configuration Management Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
What is a Platform Orchestrator Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec
Whose cognitive load is it anyway? Paula Kennedy, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Syntasso
Platform Engineering 101: all you need to know to get started Paolo Martinoli, Technical Writer at Mia-Platform
5 tips for implementing an Internal Developer Portal in your company Paolo Martinoli, Technical Writer at Mia-Platform
The Six Stages of Internal Development Platforms Sid Palas
What is platform engineering? Luca Galante
Why putting a pane of glass on a pile of sh*t doesn’t solve your problem Lee Ditiangkin
DevOps MUST Build Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Viktor Farcic
Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform Javier Turegano
Internal Developer Platform on AWS Daniel Li

2021 #

Enter the Abattoir - Building a la carte gitops tooling Stefan Kolesnikowicz
How we want to help to solve the four core IT problems by introducing the NoOps platform How NoOps/IDP can help to solve the core IT problems Cezary Olborski
DevOps Engineer — Do you know who you want to hire? Problems with DevOps Engineer role definition Cezary Olborski
Testing in Infrastructure as Code and why Terraform may not be the best option In this article, Maciej Raszplewicz shows how to write tests in the Infrastructure as Code world Maciej Raszplewicz

2020 #

How to Build Internal Tooling to Improve Your Team’s Shared Knowledge Stuart Corbishley explains how to build internal tooling to improve your team’s shared knowledge. Stuart Corbishley
Why GitHub Built Their Own Internal Developer Platform In this blog-post GitHub CTO, Jason Warner, explains why and how GitHub built their IDP.
Advocating for a Product Mindset within Platform Teams and How We Do It at HelloTech (Part 1) The Hellofresh engineering team explains why an IDP makes sense and how to get yours. Samantha Coffman
The Rise of Internal Developer Platforms Chris Stephenson dissecting DevOps and why Internal Developer Platforms are a necessary consequence. Chris Stephenson (Humanitec)
Puppet Releases Its 2020 State of DevOps Report In this blog-post InfoQ summarizes why IDPs are becoming a trend. Hrishikesh Barua (Stealth Mode Startup)
Why Zalando Built Their Internal Developer Platform‍ In this blog-post Jan Löffler explains why and how EUs biggest online retailer built their IDP.
Effective storytelling for internal platform teams Rebecca Murphey explains effective communication for internal stakeholders. Rebecca Murphy
Why Sport1 Built Their Internal Developer Platform Paolo Garri, Sport1 CTO, explains why and how Sport1 built their IDP.
Platform Engineering Wichon explains the ins and outs of platforms.
Highlights from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 Now IDPs are becoming a trend. A successful conference and an exciting future Ara Pulido
KubeCon NA 2020 Key Takeaways: Platforms, Safety, and End Users Ambassadors DevRel team explains why IDPs are everywhere and what KubeCon taught them. Daniel Bryant
Your Internal Developer Platform Sucks Veteran United's platform veteran Alan Barr explains what you can do right now to come closer to your perfect IDP. Alan Barr
Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance Statistical analysis on how you can relate engineering velocity to business outcomes. Shivam Srivastava, Kartik Trehan, Dilip Wagle, and Jane Wang
Applying product management to internal platforms How to product manage Internal Developer Platforms.
The 3 keys to scaling enterprise devops use Understand how IDPs help you scale DevOps.
The Rise of Platform Engineering Nick Daigler
My perfect AWS and Kubernetes role-based access control and the reality Great technical post about difficulties with making own role-based access control Maciej Raszplewicz
What does it mean to have a good configuration for your infrastructure? Cezary Olborski about quality of infrastructure configuration Cezary Olborski

2019 #

Auth0 Internal Dev Tools: Unleashing Engineering Potential In this blog article, Jorge Fatta from Auth0 explains how to unleash engineering potential. Jorge Fatta (Auth0)

Older #

The Joy of Internal Tools Learn more about the joy of internal tools from Slack. Greg Pelly & Mark Christian (Slack)

Other Resources #

The Equal Experts Digital Platform playbook The folks of Equal Experts who have build plenty of IDPs share their insights on how to build.

Environment Management

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Environment Management #

TLDR; With Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) developers can self-serve fully provisioned environments on demand. This removes a lot of bottlenecks and enables faster delivery. Each new environment is provisioned as defined by the platform team.

From a developer perspective, Environment Management is one of the most interesting components of an Internal Developer Platform. In many existing setups, setting up a new environment typically involves waiting for someone else (most likely the Ops team) to create and configure the new environment. This is annoying for everybody involved and also costly. An Internal Developer Platform eliminates all the required manual steps and enables self-service for the developer (or other people in your team): spin up a new environment whenever needed. At the same time, IDPs enable engineering organizations to sunset environments when no longer needed. Thanks to the transparency on usage and dependencies provided by the IDP, environments can be sunset on demand without risks, helping manage costs.

Deployment Management

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Deployment Management #

TLDR; Deployment Automation within Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) enables teams to move to a Continuous Deployment (CD) process. It also provides a clear record of each deployment ever made which is great for audits and similar processes.

An Internal Developer Platform supports teams in establishing Continuous Delivery or even Continuous Deployment (CD) processes. Deployment Automation plays a central role for this. However, Deployment Automation is so much more than just automated deployments. This section explains the typical elements of Deployment Automation within Internal Developer Platforms:

War Stories

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War Stories #

A space where you can share your failures and pain points with IDPs without judgment or recrimination. Want your war story with Internal Developer Platforms featured here? Submit a pull request!

We recognize that creating new tech is hard. It typically requires hours of planning, focus, and energy. When something goes wrong it can be incredibly frustrating and exhausting, especially if it due to factors outside your control. Here at Internal Developer Platform, we think that growth comes from failure. Sharing our challenges makes us feel less alone and provides an opportunity to learn from the experiences of others.

When do you need an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?

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When do you need an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)? #

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) make sense in certain setups, but they can be overkill in others.

Don’t overcomplicate things too early #

We believe an engineering team should use off-the-shelf platforms such as Heroku for as long as possible. Typical reasons that make you migrate away from those are:

You need granular access to the underlying infrastructure
Your costs get out of control
You have advanced data-privacy or security requirements.

When does an Internal Developer Platform not make sense? #

You are a small specialized team of 1-15 developers and you’ve hired dedicated DevOps colleagues already or everyone in your team is a senior engineer comfortable with scripting and infrastructure.
You have a single monolithic application.
You have one application with a simple, single-cloud infrastructure.

When does an Internal Developer Platform make sense? #

You have or you plan to adopt a microservice architecture.
You have a standing team of more than 15 developers with a dedicated DevOps engineer or you are planning to scale to this size. This DevOps team (or person) cannot properly focus on service level agreements or workflows because of repetitive work.
You have a small team and not everyone feels comfortable with deployments, scripting, and infrastructure and you have not yet hired a dedicated DevOps.
Your developers are blocked in their work by dependencies on other colleagues.
Anytime when you have to go multi-cloud.

How do Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) relate to other concepts?

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How do Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) relate to other concepts? #

There are tons of different concepts flying around in our industry. Let’s clarify what an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is and how it relates to other concepts.

What is an Internal Developer Platform? #

“An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is built by a platform team to build golden paths and enable developer self-service. An IDP consists of many different techs and tools, glued together in a way that lowers cognitive load on developers without abstracting away context and underlying technologies. Following best practices, platform teams treat their platform as a product and build it based on user research, maintain and continuously improve it.”

Role-Based Access Control

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Role-Based Access Control #

TLDR; Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) allow the Platform/DevOps team to manage access on a granular level. This can limit access to production to a small number of trusted people while allowing every engineer to create new development environments as needed.

A lot of different people across an IT organization are using an Internal Developer Platform to get their daily work done more efficiently; from the platform or Ops team team that is setting up the infrastructure to the product manager testing a new feature in a realistic environment to the engineer responsible for releasing new features to production. With many different people in various roles using an Internal Developer Platform, managing access and permissions is an important aspect of an Internal Developer Platform. This section provides an overview over the most important functionality of an Internal Developer Platform regarding access control:

License

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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International #

Creative Commons Corporation (“Creative Commons”) is not a law firm and does not provide legal services or legal advice. Distribution of Creative Commons public licenses does not create a lawyer-client or other relationship. Creative Commons makes its licenses and related information available on an “as-is” basis. Creative Commons gives no warranties regarding its licenses, any material licensed under their terms and conditions, or any related information. Creative Commons disclaims all liability for damages resulting from their use to the fullest extent possible.

Aiven

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Aiven Database-as-a-Service #

Aiven provides managed, cloud-based instances of your favorite open source tools such as PostgreSQL, Kafka and M3DB. We focus on making hassle-free, reliable and scalable cloud services, so that you can focus on the things you know best.

Aiven database-as-a-service enables you to accelerate application innovation through a modern, fully-managed open source data infrastructure immediately deployable in public clouds, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. The multi-cloud and open source approach means that you are never locked in to an Aiven solution.

Alan Barr

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Alan Barr is a Platform Product Owner at Veterans United Home Loans. He writes about IDPs and software engineering practices at his blog. He also guides the vision of a white-glove experience IDP, named Dev.Lab, for product-minded Engineers. Dev.Lab is unique in the space due to its focus on enabling .NET software engineers to write applications with an API-First mindset.

Amazon ECR

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) #

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy your container images and artifacts anywhere. Amazon ECR eliminates the need to operate your own container repositories or worry about scaling the underlying infrastructure. Your images are hosts your images in a high-performance architecture, allowing you to reliably deploy images for your container applications.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) #

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes.

It’s a competitive attack by AWS against Google: it offers great availability and is technically close to GKE. However, it’s downsides are a draining permissions model and a high level of complexity that will take a while to digest.

Ambassador Labs

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Ambassador #

Thousands of organizations of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, use Ambassador to code and ship microservices on Kubernetes faster. Our software enables application developers on Kubernetes to code locally, secure microservices at the edge, and independently release services to end users, without requiring an overworked DevOps engineer for support. Ambassador is in fact the perfect starting point if you want to build an Internal Developer Platform yourself. It pairs well with other tools in the ecosystem enabling platform teams to craft and maintain the perfect developer experience.

Argo CD

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Argo CD #

Claim: Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.

Focus: Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It follows the GitOps pattern of using Git repositories as the source of truth. Engineers love Argo CD for its great developer experience, especially in smaller organisations. But setting it up requires extensive experience in Kubernetes and DevOps tooling. In bigger and more complex setups, Argo CD is hard to scale, difficult to debug and requires constant maintenance.

AWS RDS

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AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) #

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security, and compatibility they need.

axem

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axem #

Here at axem, we are dedicated to helping individuals and businesses create a productive and enjoyable embedded development experience. We provide services to build and manage the whole development infrastructure with the power of DevOps methodologies combined with our expertise in embedded systems. We create consistent and scalable customized Development Environments that enable the developers to solely focus on their tasks. Our solutions are specifically tailored for tools used in the embedded industry, covering the developer’s PC and the CI/CD server. Our main goal is to create and share better, accelerated embedded solutions, to get back the lost time and effort. We have no intention of reinventing the wheel, but we want it to go as smoothly as possible.

Azure Container Registry

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Azure Container Registry #

Azure Container Registry allows you to build, store, and manage container images and artifacts in a private registry for all types of container deployments. It handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, Open Container Initiative (OCI) artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification.

-> Azure Container Registry

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) #

AKS is a container orchestration service that helps you to manage, scale, and deploy containerized applications in seconds in a cluster environment on Azure.

Azure Kubernetes service has been available on the Microsoft Azure platform since June 2018 making it a latecomer to the game of Kubernetes. However, it is increasing in functionality and technically, and operationally sufficient. We consider it ok, but not top of the list.

Azure SQL

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Microsoft Azure SQL Database #

Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) database that automates most of the database management functions like upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring without your involvement. Azure SQL Database runs on the latest stable version of the SQL Server database engine and patched OS with 99.99% availability.

With Azure SQL Database, you can create highly available and high-performance data storage layers for your applications and solutions in Azure or elsewhere.

Bytebase

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Bytebase #

Bytebase is an open source database CI/CD tool for developers and DBAs. It covers the entire database development lifecyle including database change and query, SQL review, version control and rollback. Bytebase supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB, ClickHouse and Snowflake. It also provides GitOps workflow with the native GitLab and GitHub integration.

-> Bytebase

Canary Checker

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Canary Checker #

Canary Checker is a Apache 2.0 licensed Kubernetes Native health check platform that provides a single pane of glass for health across your stack.

Canary Checker

Canary checker provides similar functionality to Prometheus Operator’s HTTP Probes but adds:

30+ different protocols including SQL, S3, CIFS, SFTP, Mongo, Redis and ElasticSearch
Alert aggregation from Alert Manager, AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace and Datadog.
Pipeline health from Github and Azure Devops.
Kubernetes resource health and status checks.
Control Plane testing by spinning up Kubernetes resourcess.
Integration tests using any test suite that exports to JUnit including Playright, K6, Newman, JMeter
Dependency free binary with a built-in dashboard
Extension through CEL (Common Expression Language) and Go Templates.

Charmed Kubernetes

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Charmed Kubernetes #

Charmed K8s is a CNCF-certified, turnkey Kubernetes distribution. It claims to provide architectural freedom and fully automated operations.

Charmed K8s is installed and managed by Juju, an open source orchestration engine for software operators developed by Canonical that enables deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at scale. The components managed by Juju are called Charms. They are independent, composable deployments of applications that can be related to each other, conveniently.

Choreo

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Choreo #

Claim: An Internal Developer Platform as a Service for Developers.

Website: choreo.dev

Docs: https://wso2.com/choreo/docs/

Twitter: https://x.com/ChoreoDev

What is Choreo? #

Choreo is an internal developer platform as a service for developers. It simplifies the deployment, monitoring, and management of cloud-native applications, allowing developers to focus on innovation and writing efficient code. Simply connect your code and have it deployed in minutes. Choreo ensures rapid integration and deployment, empowering developers to streamline their workflow and enhance productivity.

CircleCI

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CircleCI #

CircleCI is on a mission is to empower technology-driven organizations to do their best work. They want to make engineering teams more productive through intelligent automation, and provide enterprise-class support and services, with the flexibility of a startup.

-> CircleCI

Cloudraft

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Cloudraft #

Cloudraft is a DevOps & Platform Engineering Consulting company. We make developers happy by leveraging cloud-native solutions and reducing friction by implementing automation and setting up an easy-to-use platform using Cloud and Kubernetes. We have served early-stage companies to scale-ups.

Blog #

Check out our blog to learn more about us!

-> Cloudraft

Codecentric

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Codecentric #

-> Codecentric

Codefresh

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Codefresh #

Codefresh is a solid Continuous Integration tool built specifically for Kubernetes and Docker. It pioneered the concept of jobs and works great with Internal Developer Platforms.

-> Codefresh

CodeNOW

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CodeNOW #

Claim: CodeNOW — Enabling Cloud-Native Delivery Across Any Cloud.

Focus: CodeNOW integrates 50+ open-source tools into a unified Internal Developer Platform that automates CI/CD, environment creation, infrastructure management, and observability. It provides a secure golden path for teams adopting microservices, multi-cloud delivery, or AI-driven workloads, without building and maintaining their own platform. CodeNOW emphasizes zero vendor lock-in by building on proven open-source technologies, enabling organizations to maintain full control over their code, infrastructure, and intellectual property while providing developer self-service through UI, CLI, and REST API.

Coherence

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Coherence #

Claim: The first full developer experience platform

Focus: Coherence is a full-cycle platform that enables development, testing, and deployment of full-stack web apps, supporting and formalizing the full SDLC. Includes functionality to manage databases and other cloud resources in all environment types (dev/Cloud IDE, staging/ephemeral branch previews, & production).

Website: www.withcoherence.com

Docs: docs.withcoherence.com

-> Coherence

Compass from Atlassian

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Compass #

Claim: Manage your distributed architecture and the teams collaborating on it together in a single place.

Focus: Compass helps engineering teams tame software sprawl by intuitively providing a single source of truth for their distributed software architecture, and enabling them to understand what’s been built, who owns it, their operational health and policies applied to them. It offers insights into problem areas that need attention and changes that have happened over time, helping teams improve their architecture and development velocity.

ConSol

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

ConSol #

ConSol is an IT consulting company specializing in software development, platform engineering, cloud native solutions, and IT operations. We have a passion for new technologies and are big fans of OpenSource. We partner with OpenSource-minded industry leaders of enterprise container platforms.

Build it once, but build it right! Our platform engineering team will help you build flexible Internal Developer Platforms focused on your needs. We rely on Kubernetes as a foundation and build solid tools for your developer teams on top of it. GitOps and automation are key but we always keep an eye on observability and operability as well.

Container Solutions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Container Solutions #

Container Solutions is a professional services company focused on cloud-native technology. They guide companies in their cloud-native transformations. This process often involves building some kind of Internal Developer Platform (IDP), which made them into experts in this field. Their approach to building IDPs includes:

Creating an awesome Platform Team
Focus on the user experience both for development and operations teams (Developer Experience, Operations Experience)
Use opensource tools as much as possible (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Build a modular system for future evolution, make each component replaceable.
Use GitOps to manage intended system state

War Stories #

# Building a Large-Scale, Continuous Delivery Platform: a Case Study

Articles #

-> Container Solutions

Cortex

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cortex #

Claim: Build reliable and innovative software at scale

Focus: Cortex takes a system-of-record approach toward helping engineering teams make sense of their microservice architectures and development outlook.

Website: cortex.io

Docs: docs.cortex.io

Details #

Details
Does it require developers to have DevOps knowledge?	Yes
Self-hosted:	Yes
Orchestrator	N/A
Integration Concept	N/A
Setup time first app	N/A
Source	Closed
Use Case	Enterprise Setups
Total Cost of Ownership	N/A
Adoption	N/A

-> Cortex

What is Cortex? #

Cortex comprises a service catalog and associated tooling made to help teams manage their microservice ecosystems without having to mess around with spreadsheets or other generic solutions that might not be well-suited to the task. Its creators say its ability to help teams define best practices and promote positive cultural change makes it an excellent option for instituting modern development practices – but is it any better than other methods?

CROZ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

CROZ #

There are a lot of challenges and risks in building the appropriate digital platform, one that best fits an organization.

Finding the right balance can be very challenging. Should the platform be built or bought, is your current platform struggling to float due to excessive weight (lacking buoyancy), are you building the right thing… many more questions can come up.

With our years of experience and many effective platforms we’ve helped to build, we are more than capable of helping you understand and answer those questions by applying Platform Engineering principles and viewing the platform as a product – a platform that should continuously evolve and enable fast flow of value.

Cycloid

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cycloid # #

Claim: An end-to-end Internal Developer Platform to cut cloud waste and scale software delivery

Focus: Cycloid aims to improve the developer experience by promoting efficient infrastructure & software delivery alongside digital sobriety.

It accelerates platform engineering adoption from years to weeks, making organizations software development more efficient through a centralized internal developer portal featuring a self-service core.

For platform and DevOps teams, it means a common way to define automation while bringing governance to the expert team. It’s a stable platform enforcing DevOps best practices, and reducing the number of Ops tickets. For end-users, it releases cognitive load and pressure from interacting with clouds and tools, bringing the focus back to their primary mission. For execs - faster ROI, governance, and a secured future. The platform benefits everyone in the organization and speeds up software development.

Datadog

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Datadog #

Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. It brings together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. These capabilities help businesses secure their systems, avoid downtime, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

-> Datadog

DevOpsBox

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

DevOpsBox #

Claim: The first full cloud-native NoOps platform

Focus: DevOpsBox tries to cover the full scope of DevOps tools, installs and integrates them. It is based on open-source technologies but adds an easy-to-use abstraction layer on top of them.

Website: www.devopsbox.io

Docs: available soon

-> DevOpsBox

Docker Hub

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Docker Hub #

Docker Hub is the world’s largest repository of container images with an array of content sources including container community developers, open source projects, and independent software vendors (ISV) building and distributing their code in containers. Docker Hub is the world’s easiest way to create, manage, and deliver your team’s container applications.

-> Docker Hub

Dynatrace

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dynatrace #

Dynatrace is a platform for unified observability and security. It delivers end-to-end observability with AIOps and application security in one unified platform including: Infrastructure Observability, Application Observability, Security Protection, Security Analytics, Digital Experience, Business Analytics, Workflow Automations, and custom solutions that can be built as Apps for this platform with an open ecosystem. Davis® combines predictive, causal, and generative AI to deliver precise answers, intelligent automation, and recommendations, and predict issues before they impact customers. Dynatrace automatically identifies and maps interactions and relationships between apps and the underlying infrastructure with Smartscape, and uses that map to enrich and contextualize your data. Datatypes covered by Dynatrace: Traces, Topology, Metadata, Events, Metrics, Behavior, Network, Threats, Logs, Code, Problems, Vulnerabilities.

Dynatrace

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dynatrace #

dyrector.io

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

dyrector.io #

Claim: Self-service container deployment and release management.

Focus: Configure your OCI images once and deploy them as a new version anytime, to any environment.

Website: dyrector.io

Docs: https://docs.dyrector.io

GitHub: https://github.com/dyrector-io/dyrectorio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dyrectorio

Check out the project on GitHub

What is dyrector.io? #

dyrector.io is an open-source container management platform that helps you with self-service OCI image configuration and deployment capabilities.

Who is it for? #

DevOps Engineers / System Admins - The platform can be used as a hub where your team can interact with your infrastructure without your presence.
Software Engineers / Developers - You can spend more time creating new features instead of manually going through steps of deploying your containerized stack repeatedly.
Indie hackers / Self-hosters - You can use the platform by installing the agent of the platform on your infrastructure instead of setting up a dashboard and individually adding all the applications you host for yourself.
Startups / Organizations afraid of vendor lock-ins - If you’re a startupper or the decision-maker of an organization, you can check out the platform as a developer platform that fits your infrastructure as long as you manage OCI images.

Use cases #

Self-service container management #

Deploy, start, restart, stop, delete containers on your infrastructure. Check logs and inspect containers when you need to.

Eficode

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Eficode #

-> Eficode

Elastic

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Elastic #

Elastic is a distributed, open-source search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene and developed in Java. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. It is commonly used for log analytics, full-text search, security intelligence, business analytics, and operational intelligence use cases.

Elastic is easy to implement. You can quickly add pre-tuned searches to your website, app, or eCommerce store.

Elastic

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Elastic #

Built on the Elastic Stack, Elastic Observability helps organizations correlate unlimited telemetry data using the power of search to turn data into results. In a single, unified experience, Elastic Observability provides visibility into cloud environments like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, with integrations built for seamless data ingestion.

-> Elastic

EqualExperts

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

EqualExperts #

-> EqualExperts

Expert Thinking

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Expert Thinking #

Expert Thinking is a leading professional services consultancy that works with organisations to adopt cloud-native technologies at scale.

-> Expert Thinking

Flanksource Mission Control

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Flanksource Mission Control #

Claim: Kubernetes-native Internal Developer Portal and GitOps orchestrator.

Focus: Improving the developer experience when operating complex systems.

Website: www.flanksource.com

Docs: docs.flanksource.com

Details #

Details
Does it require developers to have DevOps knowledge?	No
Self-hosted:	Yes
Orchestrator	GitOps
Integration Concept	Pull based scrapers configured using Helm / CRD’s
Setup time first app	< 30m
Source	Source Open (BSL)
Use Case	Teams with limited platform engineering skills and/or capacity
Total Cost of Ownership	Free for Non-Prod, See Pricing
Adoption	N/A

Docs

What is Flanksource Mission Control? #

Flanksource Mission Control is a source-open, Kubernetes-native Internal Developer Portal (IDP) built for GitOps engineers. It empowers platform teams to accelerate GitOps adoption while providing developers with deep, real-time insights into complex system health and change.

Flightdeck

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Flightdeck #

Claim: An API-first developer platform built atop open source Backstage.

Focus:

Flightdeck is a developer platform that is built for developers. Every aspect of Flightdeck is tailored to the tools and practices typically used by high-performing development teams. Not only does Flightdeck reduce operational toil, but also provides actionable insights about the complete software development environment.

Website: arctir.com

Docs: docs.arctir.com

Details #

Details
Does it require developers to have DevOps knowledge?	No
Self-hosted:	Yes (available as SaaS or on-premises)
Orchestrator	Flightdeck has been built API-first. Arctir provides interfaces for commonly used languages and frameworks such as Go, Typescript, and Terraform.
Integration Concept	Flightdeck comes complete with integrations for the most common infrastructure services, with the option to easily add custom integrations where necessary.
Setup time first app	Less than 10 minutes
Source	OSS Based
Use Case	50+ developers with features for every team size: startups through large enterprise.
Total Cost of Ownership	Flightdeck Pricing
Adoption	Stable

-> Flightdeck

What is Flightdeck? #

Flightdeck is an API-first developer platform built on top of the open-source Backstage project. It is designed to streamline the development process by providing a centralized hub for managing software components, documentation, API specifications, and integrations. Flightdeck focuses on enhancing developer productivity by offering tools and practices commonly employed by platform engineering teams. It supports both SaaS and on-premises deployment, making it flexible for various organizational needs. With features like a secure tunnel model for accessing private infrastructure and custom plugin support, Flightdeck aims to simplify and accelerate the development lifecycle.

Flux CD

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Flux CD #

Claim: Flux is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes, and they are open and extensible.

Focus: Flux CD is a Continuous Delivery tool to help keep Kubernetes clusters in sync with configuration sources such as Git repositories and automate configuration updates when available. Flux is built with the GitOps toolkit and supports multi-tenancy and syncing an arbitrary number of Git repositories. Flux CD is one of the multiple components available to developers looking to utilize open source tools to build an IDP. It is most often compared to ArgoCD.

GCP Artifact Registry

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Artifact Registry | Google Cloud #

As the evolution of Container Registry, Artifact Registry is a single place for your organization to manage container images and language packages (such as Maven and npm). It is fully integrated with Google Cloud’s tooling and runtimes and comes with support for native artifact protocols. This makes it simple to integrate it with your CI/CD tooling to set up automated pipelines.

-> Artifact Registry by Google Cloud

GCP Container Registry

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Container Registry | Google Cloud #

Container Registry is a single place for your team to manage Docker images, perform vulnerability analysis, and decide who can access what with fine-grained access control. Existing Continuous Integration, Continous Delivery, and Deployment (referred to as CI/CD) integrations let you set up fully automated Docker pipelines to get fast feedback.

NOTE : Container Registry is still available and will continue to be supported as a Google Enterprise API, going forward new features will only be available in Artifact Registry, and Container Registry will only receive critical security fixes.

Giant Swarm

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Giant Swarm #

Claim: Giant Swarm’s Cloud Native Platform enables teams to rapidly develop, iterate and operate services at scale.

What Giant Swarm is:

Giant Swarm is a Kubernetes-based product. It’s built incrementally by incorporating feedback from all our customers. It accelerates the delivery of products.

Differentiating. It empowers your teams to concentrate on solving real business problems by abstracting away organisational complexities and toil.

Opinionated. It makes it easy for your teams to build, deploy, and operate products by providing a curated set of high quality platform building blocks.

Gimlet

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gimlet #

Claim: Kubernetes made simpler for cluster admins, developers and managers

Focus: Gimlet is a set of tools that will get you an application operations platform on top of Kubernetes.

It is built on the de-facto tools of the ecosystem - Helm and Flux - and provides you with a golden-path, a set of best-practices, so you can focus on your task at hand. Without having to navigate the vast options the cloud native ecosystem offers you.

GitHub Actions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

GitHub Actions #

GitHub Actions is a newish project by version control giant GitHub. It’s conveniently integrated into a tool that most teams already use. GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class Continuous Integration, Continous Delivery, and Deployment (referred to as CI/CD). Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.

GitLab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

GitLab #

GitLab is one application with endless possibilities. Organizations rely on GitLab’s source code management, Continuous Integration, Continous Delivery, and Deployment (referred to as CI/CD), security, and more to deliver software rapidly. GitLab is growing rapidly, although some say it’s spread slightly too thin across all layers. But Continuous Integration and version control are what they live and breathe.

-> GitLab

Google CloudSQL

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google CloudSQL #

Google Cloud SQL is a managed Google Cloud database service that allows you to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server databases on Google Cloud. It offers a fully managed relational database service.

-> Google CloudSQL

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) #

GKE is a version of Managed Kubernetes version from the creators of Kubernetes. It provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling your containerized applications using Google infrastructure. The GKE environment consists of multiple machines (specifically, Compute Engine instances) grouped together to form a cluster.

GKE is highly recommended from a technical and reliability perspective. A downside is a tendency to enforce updates which leads to maintenance overhead, but otherwise great.

gopaddle

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

gopaddle #

Claim: Simplest low-code platform for Kubernetes developers and operators

Focus: Simple Self-Service Platform to accelerate Kubernetes implementation, streamline team collaboration and improve feedback loop. The best part? It is a highly customizable low code platform.

Website: gopaddle.io

Docs: help.gopaddle.io

-> gopaddle

Grafana

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Grafana #

Grafana is an open source technology used to compose observability dashboards with everything from Prometheus and Graphite metrics, to logs and application data to power plants and beehives.

Grafana connects with a plethora of databases including Graphite, Prometheus, Influx DB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It helps to monitor and analyze data and track user and application behavior including error type and frequency in pre-production and production-environments.

If you’re ok with the additional overhead it’s a great way to monitor.

Gremlin

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gremlin #

-> Gremlin

Hallatek

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hallatek #

Hallatek is a professional DevOps company specializing in Kubernetes deployments on-prem, edge, IoT and cloud, and ensuring developer teams get best possible experience adopting and using Kubernetes.

-> Hallatek

Harbor

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Harbor #

Harbor is an open source registry that secures artifacts with policies and Role-Based Access Control. It ensures images are scanned and free from vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted. Harbor is a graduate of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It delivers compliance, performance, and interoperability to help you consistently and securely manage artifacts across cloud-native compute platforms like Kubernetes and Docker. Harbor is what we are seeing used most in the Internal Developer Platform ecosystem.

Humanitec

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Humanitec #

Claim: Powers your Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Focus: Enables teams to build their own Internal Developer Platforms. Developed by former Google platform engineers, Humanitec focuses on providing a high-level developer experience and self-service for scale-ups to Fortune 100. Humanitec is widely considered the number one Platform Orchestrator and best option for IDP building in terms of total users and community. The system claims that it can save a seven-person developing team about 50 hours a week by streamlining the development process.

InfraCloud Technologies

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

InfraCloud Technologies #

InfraCloud Technologies is a cloud native consulting company which has been building products, services, and solutions to modernize applications and infrastructure for resilience and scalability. InfraCloud was one of the first Kubernetes partners and have been contributing to the open source community around cloud-native technologies.

InfraCloud is your end-to-end partner for every step of platform engineering - from choosing the right platform to building MVP, integrations, and support. InfraCloud’s deep and full-stack platform capabilities, along with robust cloud-native ecosystem exposure help create platforms that are optimized for both experience and performance.

Instana

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Instana #

Instana is the leading provider of Observability and fully automated Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for cloud-native Microservice applications. The company’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated APM, ingests all observability metrics, traces every request, and profiles all processes continuously and automatically, delivering the actionable information with full context to developer and operations teams to help them optimize their application performance and pipelines.

Instana was acquired by IBM in December 2020.

James Whinn

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

James Whinn, CTO of Expert Thinking, is an industry certified expert with comprehensive experience helping organisations succeed in their digital transformations. With exposure to such a wide range of sectors, including highly regulated industries such as finance and pharmaceuticals, James is well rehearsed in the common pitfalls facing companies when it comes to adopting cloud-native technologies and how to overcome them.

As an advocate of Internal Developer Platforms, James believes that IDP’s are key to an organisations ability to compete in the age of software. James goes further to suggest that often, in times where companies across all sectors are increasingly adapting to become technology companies, that the difference between success or falling behind the competion is often the successful adoption of an IDP which enables the organisation to deliver on its business outcomes.

Jenkins

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jenkins #

Jenkins is the leading open source automation server, providing hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating. Jenkins is often used to orchestrate the scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setups to power an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). However, Jenkins has a tendency to become very hard to maintain. While IDPs built with Jenkins scale to a certain degree, they require significant maintenance.

-> Jenkins

Jenkins

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jenkins #

Jenkins is the leading open source automation server, providing hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating. Jenkins is often used to orchestrate the scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setups that power an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). However, it has a tendency to get very difficult to maintain. While IDPs build with Jenkins scale to a certain degree, they require a large amount of maintenance.

Kratix

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kratix #

Claim: Open-source platform framework for building composable internal developer platforms (IDPs)

Focus: Kratix is a framework that enables co-creation of capabilities by providing a clear contract between application and platform teams through the definition and creation of “Promises”. Kratix focuses on empowering platform engineers to build better platforms

Website: kratix.io

Docs: docs.kratix.com

Details #

Details
DevOps Knowledge Required?	No
Self-hosted:	Yes
Orchestrator	Kubernetes (supports multi-cluster and off-cluster orchestration including AI workloads, edge and mainframe)
Integration Concept	Kubernetes-native APIs with extensible workflows; turns IaC tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane into fleet-managed platform APIs
Setup time first app	Approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour using the Marketplace or a few hours for a custom solution
Source	Open (Apache 2)
Use Case	Scale up to Enterprise Setups
Total Cost of Ownership	FOSS cost is related to Kubernetes development and management costs, also enterprise option available
Adoption	Growing open-source community including supporting Fortune 500 production deployments

-> Kratix

What is Kratix? #

Kratix is an open-source platform orchestrator developed by Syntasso to help platform teams design self-service, secure, and scalable internal developer platforms (IDPs). It enables platform engineering teams to define and deliver platform capabilities as self-service and governed APIs known as Promises. These services include CI/CD pipelines, databases, third-party services, Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, etc.

Kubevela

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kubevela #

Claim: Make shipping applications more enjoyable.

Shifting to the open application model makes it necessary to restructure the entire config setup.

Website: https://kubevela.io/

Docs: https://kubevela.io/docs/

-> Kubevela

What is KubeVela? #

KubeVela’s goal is to make shipping applications more enjoyable. As a modern application delivery platform, KubeVela works to make application deployment and operation across hybrid, multi-cloud environments faster, easier, and more reliable.

The system is infrastructure agnostic, programmable, and application-centric. Ideally, the platform effortlessly scales and adapts to platform needs. KubeVela offers potential for multiple users, including app developers, operators, and DevOps engineers; platform builders for PaaS, Serverless, and app management or delivery systems; and ISV, SaaS owners, and app architects.

KusionStack

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

KusionStack #

Claim: Open Tech Stack to build self-service, collaborative, reliable and sustainable Internal Developer Platform

Focus: As an early Platform Engineering practitioner, KusionStack has the vision to address some major challenges within applications’ DevOps lifecycle (delivery, operations, etc) in a time where infrastructure technologies are aggressively expanding, and consequently, the cognitive burden for the developers that comes with it. KusionStack aims to eliminate infrastructure complexity for cloud-native applications and enable developer self-service via disciplines of Platform Engineering.

LiveWyer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

LiveWyer #

LiveWyer is a cloud platform consultancy dedicated to helping organisations build scalable, efficient, and resilient Cloud Native infrastructures. Specialising in Platform Engineering, LiveWyer leverages modern DevOps practices and cloud technologies to optimise development, enhance reliability, and boost performance. Their expertise spans Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, and a range of open-source tools tailored to each client’s business needs.

Understanding that every organisation faces unique challenges, LiveWyer customises its consulting services to align with specific business objectives. By partnering with LiveWyer, clients gain a trusted advisor committed to optimising cloud strategy, maximising technology investments, and empowering teams to deliver exceptional products.

MariaDB

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

MariaDB #

MariaDB Server is one of the most popular open source relational databases. It’s made by the original developers of MySQL and guaranteed to stay open source. It is part of most cloud offerings and the default in most Linux distributions.

MariaDB turns data into structured information in a wide array of applications, ranging from banking to websites. Originally designed as enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL, MariaDB is fast, scalable, and robust, with a rich ecosystem of storage engines, plugins, and many other tools make it very versatile for a wide variety of use cases.

Massdriver

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Massdriver #

Claim: Streamlines the Design and Development of Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with Integrated Infrastructure Visibility.

Focus: Massdriver is engineered to streamline the development and deployment process, allowing organizations to rapidly deliver world-class products with a high-level developer experience. It’s designed to save substantial time and resources by automating cloud operations, integrating seamlessly with CI/CD systems, and providing a self-service platform for developers, mirroring a Platform as a Service (PaaS) experience with enhanced flexibility and control.

Masterpoint

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Masterpoint #

Is your engineering team struggling to keep pace with the demands of modern software delivery? At Masterpoint, we specialize in platform engineering solutions that streamline your development workflow. We partner with growing organizations to build robust, scalable platforms that integrate cutting-edge practices like Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enhancing standardization and automation. Whether you’re looking to optimize your CI/CD pipelines, implement self-service infrastructure, or speed up your time to delivery, we’re here to elevate your platform engineering capabilities and accelerate your time to market.

Mia-Platform

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mia-Platform #

Claim: Turn your company into a Digital Platform

Focus: Mia-Platform brings to the market the first solution for the end-to-end creation of cloud-native digital platforms.

Mia-Platform is a Developer Hub that manages the end-to-end life cycle of cloud native applications and simplifies the life of Dev and Ops. We also provide a marketplace full of plug-n-play components to accelerate the construction of your own digital platform.

Website: mia-platform.eu

MongoDB

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

MongoDB #

MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is a distributed database at its core, so high availability, horizontal scaling, and geographic distribution are built-in and easy to use.

New Relic

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

New Relic #

New Relic One is a cloud-based observability platform built to help engineers create software. From monoliths to serverless, you can instrument everything, then analyze, troubleshoot, and optimize your entire software stack. All from one place.

-> New Relic

Nitric

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nitric #

Nitric is an open-source Infrastructure in Code software tool that provides a CLI (Command Line Interface) workflow to automate the provisioning of resources for managed services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. Nitric automatically generates a specification of resources required by an application and leverages IaC tools such as Pulumi or Terraform to fulfill the resource request. Nitric simplifies the provisioning process by allowing you to focus more on the application development and less on the specific details of each cloud.

NorthCode

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

NorthCode #

We provide services within DevSecOps include audits, hands-on-work, training, coaching and full solutions.

-> NorthCode

Nullstone

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nullstone #

Claim: Nullstone is an easy-to-use developer platform that allows developers to ship fast to the cloud without being experts. The platform is customizable to meet the security and compliance needs of customers.

Focus: Nullstone is an open platform that provides a single experience for infrastructure code and application code. The platform provides better visibility/control over cloud providers, automates the deployment process, and automates environment provisioning (including ephemeral environments). All infrastructure modules are open-source and compliance-certified providing teams with a great launch point for managing secure/compliant infrastructure.

One2N

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

One2N #

One2N is a boutique consulting company specializing in cloud-native solutions that help businesses optimize their cloud and datacenter infrastructure and operations. One2N helps modernize your application to make it cloud-native ready. They help to build cloud-native architectures without vendor lock-ins, resulting in massive cost savings.

One2N operates in the Platform Engineering space, enabling engineering teams to build and deploy Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and empowering engineering teams to deploy confidently and independently through self-serve platforms.

OpenShift

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

OpenShift #

OpenShift is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes container platform with full-stack automated operations to manage hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge deployments. Its advantages include that the API is well documented and governed by design and it helps you enforce security standards. However, it’s a beast in terms of complexity, make sure you have lots of time for set up and maintenance.

-> OpenShift

OpsLevel

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

OpsLevel #

Claim: All your services, all in one interface

Focus: OpsLevel is a uniform interface that lets developers manage everything from one place, including their tools, services, and systems.

Website: opslevel.com

Docs: opslevel.com/docs

Details #

Details
Does it require developers to have DevOps knowledge?	Yes
Self-hosted:	Yes
Orchestrator	N/A
Integration Concept	N/A
Setup time first app	N/A
Source	Closed
Use Case	Enterprise Setups
Total Cost of Ownership	N/A
Adoption	N/A

-> Opslevel

What is OpsLevel? #

If you’re like many organizations that have struggled with DevOps, then creating an internal developer platform (IDP) probably seems like a smart move – and OpsLevel promises to help you build a capable Developer Portal and Service Catalog provides your developers with one main access point to your IDP (which you still need to build).

Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) #

Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is a managed Kubernetes service for operating containerized applications at scale while reducing the time, cost, and operational burden of managing the complexities of Kubernetes infrastructure. Container Engine for Kubernetes enables you to deploy Kubernetes clusters instantly and ensure reliable operations with automatic updates, patching, scaling, and more.

-> Oracle Kubernetes Engine

Pergola

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pergola #

A Platform as a Service from Developers for Developers.

Website: pergola.cloud

Docs: docs.pergola.cloud

What is Pergola? #

As an end-to-end self-service platform for developers, Pergola simplifies the creation, deployment, execution and management of software products as a service. It enables developers to focus on their work and turn ideas into great products without losing time on the technical infrastructure and operations.

With Pergola, you have full control over the entire process, from building to deploying and serving your applications to your users, without any of the IT complexity.

Platform Engineers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Platform Engineers #

At Platform Engineers, we understand the challenges our clients face when it comes to effectively utilizing cloud infrastructure. With the rise of the platform economy and its impact on various industries, businesses are constantly adapting to new requirements and facing fierce competition. To address these needs, we offer our platform engineering expertise to help businesses achieve success.

Our solutions provide several key benefits, including enhanced scalability and reliability, accelerated prototyping, and cost savings. By leveraging our expertise, your business can overcome the complexities of the cloud and focus on developing and delivering software solutions. We accomplish this by constructing an internal platform that empowers development teams within your organization to build and deploy applications quickly and efficiently. This approach allows you to redirect your efforts from repetitive, low-level tasks such as infrastructure setup and configuration towards more productive endeavors.

Platform.sh

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Polar Squad

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Polar Squad #

The best DevOps company*

We make tech work meaningful. We build scalable tech organizations by improving software development practices and creating rapid, reliable cloud environments. By transforming tech and culture, we enable people and organizations to focus on the things that matter.

-> Polar Squad

According to us

Port

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Port # #

Claim: An open internal developer portal.

Focus: Port is a platform that lets platform engineers build a context-rich software catalog with maturity and quality scorecards. It can also support comprehensive, long-running, developer self-service actions on services, resources, and more, as well as workflow automation.

Website: getport.io

Docs: docs.getport.io

Live Demo: demo.getport.io/self-serve

Details # #

Details
Does it require developers to have DevOps knowledge?	No
Orchestrator	N/A. Port is loosely coupled with any existing platform engineering automation, interfacing with any orchestrator chosen by the customer
Integration Concept	API based
Setup time first app	Minutes
Source	Closed, integrations and exporters are open
Total Cost of Ownership	Port has a free version without user or time limits. Pricing is transparent and appears on Port’s site
Adoption	Many free and paying users, such as Foresters, CyberArk, Shift, Bloomerang, Melio, BT, Tripla, neosec, Aqua, run:ai, etc

-> Port

Portainer

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Portainer Community Edition #

Portainer is an open source tool that lets users set-up, configure, and govern a container management portal that helps them get more value from Kubernetes sooner, with the skills the team already has. Manage any orchestrator, in the cloud, on prem, or at the edge, in a single interface.

Resources #

-> Portainer

PostgreSQL

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL #

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. It’s earned a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

-> PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Kubernetes scalable solution #

Postgres operator is a scalable solution that enables teams to create, update, upgrade and monitor PostgreSQL clusters using Kubernetes CRDs.

It is actively maintained and battle tested by Zalando.

Prometheus

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Prometheus #

Prometheus is an open source monitoring platform. Built primarily for monitoring containerized workloads, Prometheus is a popular tool for collecting time series data from instrumented jobs using an open, vendor-neutral, text-based exposition format.

It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting. The project is written in Go and licensed under the Apache 2 License, with source code available on GitHub, and is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Pulumi

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pulumi #

Pulumi is an open source Infrastructure as Code tool for creating, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure. Pulumi works with traditional infrastructure like VMs, networks, and databases. Pulumi also works with modern architectures, including containers, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless functions. Pulumi supports dozens of public, private, and hybrid cloud service providers. Pulumi can be used when you develop your Internal Developer Platform by codifying the infrastructure orchestration functionality

-> Pulumi

Qovery

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Qovery #

Claim: The self-service infrastructure platform with an outstanding developer experience

Focus: Qoveru is a full-cycle platform that enables development, testing, and deployment of full-stack web apps, supporting and formalizing the full SDLC. Includes functionality to manage databases and other cloud resources in all environment types (dev/Cloud IDE, staging/ephemeral branch previews, & production).

Website: www.qovery.com

Docs: hub.qovery.com

Blog: blog.qovery.com

Forum: discuss.qovery.com

-> Qovery

RabbitMQ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

RabbitMQ #

****RabbitMQ is an open-source message-broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that originally implemented the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and has since been extended with a plug-in architecture to support Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol (STOMP), MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT), and other protocols.

RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on-premises and in the cloud. RabbitMQ can be deployed in distributed and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability requirements.

Rancher

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rancher #

Rancher is a Kubernetes management tool to deploy and run clusters anywhere and on any provider.

Rancher can provision Kubernetes from a hosted provider, provision compute nodes and then install Kubernetes onto them, or import existing Kubernetes clusters running anywhere.

Rancher adds significant value on top of Kubernetes, first by centralizing authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) for all of the clusters, giving global admins the ability to control cluster access from one location.

Redis

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Redis #

Redis is an in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperlogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions, and different levels of on-disk persistence, and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster.

Redis is open source and BSD licensed - this means it has attained a permissive free software license, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.

Rely.io

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rely.io #

Claim: A Managed Developer experience that just works.

Focus: Rely.io is an Internal Developer Portal that grants developers autonomy, reduces costs and increases productivity all while ensuring governance and standardization.

Website: rely.io

Docs: docs.rely.io

Request Free Trial: rely.io/free-trial

Details #

Details
Does it require developers to have DevOps knowledge?	No
Self-hosted:	SaaS with self-hosted options. Galaxy, Rely.io’s integration can be run in your infrastructure. For self-service actions, the self-service agent needs to be installed in your secure environment
Orchestrator	N/A. Rely.io integrates with any existing platform engineering automation, interfacing with any orchestrator chosen by the customer
Integration Concept	API based
Setup time first app	Minutes
Source	Mixed. The integration engine, some integrations and self-service agent are open source
Use Case	Startups, Scale-ups and Enterprise Setups
Total Cost of Ownership	Rely.io’s pricing model is seat-based and the details are available on Rely.io website
Adoption	Early but stable with customers, such as, Amplemarket, Rows, Feezai, etc…

-> Rely.io

What is Rely.io? #

Rely.io is an Internal Developer Portal that aims to improve developer autonomy, reduce costs and ultimately increase developer productivity all while ensuring governance and standardization.

Roadie

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Roadie #

Claim: Backstage as a service: adopt OSS without the overhead.

Focus:

Backstage is a powerful Open Source technology, but as highlighted by Garner¹, it can require significant effort and resources to stand up and maintain. Roadie offers production-grade Backstage instances through a managed Cloud, automatic updates, extra security layers, and stellar support by engineers.

Roadie is an ideal fit for teams with up to 2000 developers using GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, or Azure DevOps for Source Control Management.

Selefra

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Selefra #

Selefra means “select * from infrastructure”. It is an open-source infrastructure-as-code software that provides analysis for multi-cloud and SaaS environments, including over 30 services such as AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Cloudflare, and Slack.

-> Selefra

Shipa

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shipa #

Claim: It’s all about the application

Focus: Shipa is a Kubernetes control plane that keeps the configuration at an abstraction level that allows the user to deploy any Kubernetes cluster with the same experience. Shipa is opinionated, requires YAML files as part of the repos to set Kubernetes and connect to the CI pipelines, but doesn’t provide the dynamic creation of new workloads, environments, or environments without further scripting. Shipa makes sense for developers who want an abstraction on top of Kubernetes for governance reasons, but it may not be suitable as a component to build an IDP.

SixDegree

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

SixDegree #

Claim: A live ontology that discovers services, infrastructure, and ownership across your tools, so platform teams and AI agents share the same source of truth.

Focus: SixDegree replaces static service catalogs with a live, queryable graph. Instead of engineers maintaining YAML files, SixDegree discovers entities, relationships, and ownership directly from your infrastructure. The same graph powers AI agents via MCP: agents see real dependencies and ownership when creating tickets, scaling deployments, or triaging incidents.

Spotify's Backstage.io

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Backstage.io #

Claim: An open platform for building developer portals

Focus: Backstage helps very large teams to document their infrastructure and services. It was originally developed for Spotify and is still very much tailored to their workflow and use-cases. Backstage’s main feature is their Software Catalog where teams can keep track of ownership and metadata of all software in their organisation. Backstage also allows you to create new components such as new microservices from templates. Strictly speaking, Backstage is not an Internal Developer Platform because it lacks operational features beyond documentation and base templating. That said, Backstage is a great add-on to any Internal Developer Platform and integrates well with several offerings.

Tektit

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tektit #

-> Tektit

Tempest

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tempest #

Claim: End-to-end platform automations with comprehensive built-in portal.

Focus:

Tempest is a developer portal that provides full cloud visibility, alongside powerful, end-to-end automations. It’s backed by a powerful developer SDK written in Go, making it the fastest path to setting up a portal and a platform for your big engineering teams.

Website: tempestdx.com

Docs: docs.tempestdx.com

Details #

Details
Does it require developers to have DevOps knowledge?	No
Orchestrator	Build in end-to-end orchestration of deployments
Integration Concept	Full developer SDK built on Go that models the provisioning lifecycle. Includes first party app integrations
Setup time first app	Minutes
Source	Closed core, but self-serve recipes are open-source
Use Case	Internal developer portal for big engineering orgs
Total Cost of Ownership	30-day free trial and generous free tier. Pricing is transparent and available at tempestdx.com/pricing
Adoption	N/A

-> Tempest

What is Tempest? #

Tempest helps teams deliver better code, faster, by providing a ready-to-use developer self-serve experience without the months of setup. It empowers developers to build, deploy, and manage independently, with built-in security and compliance guardrails. With Tempest’s unified platform—combining everything teams need from a service catalog and software ownership to powerful end-to-end automation—organizations boost developer productivity, accelerate time to market, and maximize return on engineering investments.

Terraform by Hashicorp

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Terraform by Hashicorp #

Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code software tool that provides a consistent CLI (Command Line Interface) workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. This allows you to automate the provisioning of your infrastructure resources. It’s the perfect way to build the provisioning-component of the infrastructure orchestration building block yourself.

-> Terraform

Thoughtworks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thoughtworks #

Thoughtworks invented the concept of distributed agile and we know how to harness the power of global teams to deliver software excellence at scale. Today, we help our clients create their own path to digital fluency and to build organizational resilience to navigate the future.

Over the last few years platforms have transformed everything from how we pay for goods, to how we consume our favorite TV shows and movies. They have virtually limitless potential. But as many businesses have discovered, it takes more than the digital platform itself to turn that potential into measurable value.

Upbound

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Upbound #

Claim: Universal cloud APIs and consoles for your team

Focus: Upbound offers a UI layer to manage several Crossplane modules. Upbound itself deals only with infrastructure orchestration. The dynamic composition of configurations or automated workflows are not covered by the product. Upbound only works for developers who want to unify everything against Crossplane, a task that usually isn’t feasible if you have for example already existing IaC modules in place. Some developers may find the system redundant if they’re building a platform and have to build a more overarching UI layer.

Upsun (formerly Platform.sh)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Upsun (formerly Platform.sh) #

Upsun (formerly Platform.sh) is a fully managed, git-driven cloud application platform designed to bridge the gap between developer productivity and enterprise operations. In September 2024, Platform.sh evolved into Upsun to reflect its expanded focus on AI-augmented workflows, granular resource management, and enterprise-scale modernization.

It can serve as an out-of-the-box Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that abstracts infrastructure complexity, allowing engineering teams to deploy, secure, and scale applications instantly using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles.

VirtusLab

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

VirtusLab #

VirtusLab provides custom software engineering and consulting services, and specialises in internal developer platforms. We guide our clients through a comprehensive journey that includes discovery and assessment, platform strategy, development, operations and developer community management.

Our expertise helps you navigate the complexities of platform engineering. A multi-disciplinary team works closely with you to help you realise the full benefits of your internal developer platform, including:

Centralise infrastructure and drive adoption of standard architectures
Facilitate full compliance in a dynamic security and regulatory environment
Reduce lead time to production by optimising developer friction points
Control costs, encourage code reuse and replace multiple ‘do-it-yourself’ solutions.

What are the advantages of working with VirtusLab’s platform engineers?