Internal Developer Platform
A GitOps-based control plane that turns repository, delivery and environment concerns into self-service workflows.
Launch stateThese entries are placeholders while the real case studies and experiment write-ups are prepared for publication.
- Platform
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- Kubernetes
- Argo CD
- Terraform
- Backstage
- GitHub Actions
System diagram
Overview
The platform is a thin layer over Kubernetes and GitOps. It gives product teams paved roads without hiding the underlying infrastructure.
Components
Developer portal exposes templates and ownership metadata. Git repositories hold declarative definitions. Delivery pipelines build, scan and sign artifacts. The cluster reconciles state from Git. Policy engine verifies admission and delivery gates.
Data flow
A team selects a template in the portal, which creates a repository. A push triggers the pipeline; the pipeline produces an artifact and updates the target manifest. Argo CD reconciles the cluster to the manifest. The policy engine admits only signed, compliant workloads.
Decisions
GitOps reconciliation keeps cluster state auditable and recoverable.
Templates are preferred over abstraction layers so teams can read and fork what the platform generates.
Trade-offs
The platform does not own the cluster API; teams can still fall back to kubectl. This slows enforcement but prevents the platform from becoming a single point of failure.