Executive Summary
The Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is the self-service infrastructure layer that allows product engineering teams to provision, deploy, observe, and manage cloud workloads without requiring deep DevOps expertise or manual intervention from the platform team.
Four Pillars
| Pillar | Tool | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Developer portal | Backstage | Catalog, templates, documentation, observability |
| GitOps delivery | ArgoCD | Continuous delivery from Git to Kubernetes |
| Container runtime | Kubernetes | Workload scheduling and isolation |
| Cloud IaC | Crossplane | Cloud resource provisioning as Kubernetes objects |
Primary Outcome
The platform targets engineering velocity as its primary outcome: a new service that historically took days of DevOps coordination should be running in production within 30 minutes via self-service Backstage templates.