AI-Native Platform Engineering

Collecting information on AI-Native Platform Enginereing and AI Platforms.

Table of Contents

• Automation
• Kubernetes Operator Pattern
• Platform Engineering
• Internal Developer Platform
• Internal Developer Portal
• Platform Mesh
• AI Agents
• Events
• Community

Platform Engineering

YouTube

• HashiCorp: What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?
• DevOps Toolkit: How To Create A Complete Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?
• Platform Engineering by Google

DevEx

• DX Core 4

Internal Developer Platform

Return of Investment (ROI)

• Natan Yellin: Dollars and DevOps: The business case for Internal Developer Platforms
• Bartek Antoniak: The economics of internal developer platforms

Cost Optimisation

• SAP: Leaner Clusters, Lower Bills

Reference Architecture

• Pini Reznik: The Platform Reference
• Apeiro by SAP
• Platform Engineering by Google

KPIs and Metrics

• DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
• Backstage
• Puppet

Internal Developer Portal

Adoption

Market Share

Backstage Adoption

Source: https://youtu.be/7PeEK83Eg1g?si=LYlwIFQILqWSRSHS

Portals

• Backstage
• Port
• Cortex
• Krateo

Kubernetes Operator Pattern

Introduction: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator

Enterprises using Kubernetes Operators

• Mercedes: How to Migrate 700 Kubernetes Clusters to Cluster API with Zero Downtime
  • ClusterAPI
• Michelin: Driving Innovation at Michelin: How We Scaled Cloud & On-Prem
  • ClusterAPI + Crossplane
• HSBC Bank
  • Google Config Connector
• SAP: Kyma
  • Kyma
• SAP: Gardener
  • Gardener
• VMware: Cluster API Intro and Deep Dive
  • ClusterAPI

Enterprises using Internal Developer Portals

• Airbnb, Booking.com, Toyota, Lego, Philips using Backstage
  • Backstage

Infrastructure Management Operators

Vendor	Name	Type	GitHub	Notes
Amazon	AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)	Open Source	https://github.com/aws-controllers-k8s
Microsoft	Azure Service Operator for Kubernetes (ASO)	Open Source	https://github.com/Azure/azure-service-operator
Google	GCP Config Connector	Open Source	https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-config-connector
Microsoft, Google, Amazon	Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro)	Open Source	https://github.com/kro-run/kro
Microsoft, Alibaba	openvela	Open Source	https://github.com/open-vela
Microsoft, IBM, VMWare	ClusterAPI (CAPI)	Open Source	https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
SAP	Gardener	Open Source	https://github.com/gardener/gardener
Upbound	Crossplane	Open Source	https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane	Terraform dependency

Control Planes & API Mesh

Vendor	Name	Type	GitHub	Notes
Kubermatic, RedHat, VMware	kcp	Open Source	https://github.com/kcp-dev	API Mesh + Multicluster
Clastix	Kamaji	Open Source	https://github.com/clastix/kamaji	Control Plane Manager

Why Terraform, Ansible, etc.. is bad?

LinkedIn

• Daniel Gugel: "DevOps Engineers: Bash, Python, Terraform, and Ansible are not automation tools."

Automation

Maturity Levels

History

Available Models

RedHat Proposal

Remark: modified by cogniteo.io

Patterns

• Controller Pattern by SAP
• Controller Pattern by Google
• Kubernetes Operator Pattern
• PID: Proportional-Integral-Derivative

AI Agents

• AI Platform Engineer: Jarvis v1.0

Events

• AI-Native Platform Engineering: "AI-Native Enterprise Architecture"
• AI-Native Platform Engineering Warsaw: "AI-Native Enterprise Architecture"
• AI-Native Platform Engineering Zurich: "AI-Native Enterprise Architecture"

Community

• LinkedIn
• Slack
• YouTube