Tag: Platform Engineering
All the articles with the tag "Platform Engineering".
KRO: composite Kubernetes APIs without writing your own operator
Kube Resource Orchestrator bundles a Deployment, Service, ConfigMap, and an external Crossplane resource into a single composite CRD without a line of Go. We break down ResourceGraphDefinition, compare it to Crossplane Compositions and a condition-heavy Helm chart, and look at where KRO loses.
Scorecards for platform teams: measuring whether the service catalog actually works
A service catalog is a showcase; scorecards are the lever. How to compute quantitative security/reliability/documentation metrics on top of Trivy, Renovate, and Sentry you already run, via Backstage TechInsights, without buying a commercial IDP.
Backstage in a weekend: an IDP and golden paths for a small team
An Internal Developer Platform isn't only for enterprises: a minimal Backstage in docker-compose with one Software Template gives a service catalog and a 'new service in one click' win already at 3-5 engineers. What it takes and where the traps are.