A Cloud Native Foundation for Developer - Application Platforms

This talk shares lessons from projects building cloud-agnostic platforms that support developers in building and delivering domain-specific solutions. It discusses platform complexity, cloud providers, CI/CD, observability, and metrics, and considers tools such as Crossplane, Backstage, Argo, and Buildpacks.

Syllabus

Intro
INTRODUCTION
What we are talking about
Platform or Internal Dev Platform
Orchestrate Chaos
The ideal IDP
What you want to achieve
Or even better
Lessons Learned - the little things
Complexity of Platforms
Kubernetes is not a hypervisor
The cloud provider matter
CI/CD a mythos/dilemma
You need a unified observability
Deliver to Devs the full view
What doesn't work well, yet
Some key metrics building a platform Bert bay