Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb
Talkat Platform Engineering Day NA 2024 · on Tuesday, 2024-11-12· at 16:25· Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom G·
summary
Argument: developer portals must be dumb — they should discover CRD schemas from Kubernetes instead of forcing engineers to hand‑rewrite hundreds of lines of YAML. Implementation: Port queries Crossplane CRDs, auto‑renders forms, and generate GitOps manifests that are pushed via send to GitHub Actions; GitHub Actions writes to Git and Argo CD syncs to cluster. Demo mostly succeeds: generated manifest appears, Argo CD synchronizes, Crossplane begins provisioning an AWS PostgreSQL instance (takes ~20 minutes).
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The role of developer portals
- 2:48The problem with static portals
- 5:33Automating portal definitions
- 9:15Live demo of dynamic discovery
- 12:30Configuring self-service forms
- 17:26GitOps and infrastructure flow
- 21:48Q&A and platform philosophy
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