Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platf...
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 14:30· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F·
summary
Live demo builds an Internal Developer Platform using Crossplane for Kubernetes APIs, which turns a 10-line SQL claim into AWS VPC, subnets and security groups, and an app manifest; policy is enforced with Kyverno requiring scaling.enabled=true and replicas>=2; CI runs as an Argo Workflows pipeline that checks out code, builds with kico, runs tests and pushes manifests; the GUI is Backstage in read-only discovery mode that generates forms and pushes changes to Git for Argo CD to sync.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Developer platform adventure
- 2:28What is an internal developer platform
- 3:55Evaluating API and state tools
- 8:11Crossplane live demo
- 15:02Choosing policy enforcement tools
- 18:14Kyverno for security policies
- 21:42One-time tasks and pipelines
- 24:37Argo Workflows demo
- 27:28Adding graphical interface
- 30:00Backstage demo and insights
- 32:51Closing remarks
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