Composable Platforms: Modular Platform Engineering With Kratix and Backstage
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-06-11· at 15:30· Level 19 | Crystal Court I·
summary
Shows a concrete integration: an internal developer platform built from Kratix promises (Kubernetes CRDs that package dependencies, actions and destinations) and a Backstage software catalog front end. Platform team creates two templates (namespace and Postgres instance), stores manifests in Git/S3, and Argo/Flux agents deploy to target clusters. Kratix auto-installs control-plane dependencies (reducing platform-engineer work versus Crossplane), demo hits a token hiccup but the Postgres operator proves the instance is created.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and challenges
- 1:05DevOps bottlenecks
- 4:14Platform engineering basics
- 7:02Internal developer platforms
- 9:51Kratix framework overview
- 14:55Backstage developer portal
- 19:40Kratix and Backstage synergy
- 23:03Platform in action demo
- 27:58Summary and recap
- 28:57Questions and answers
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