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Orchestrating Non-Kubernetes Resources with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise
We built Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) to support the orchestration of any platform resource—Kubernetes-native or not—with automation, governance, and scale in mind.

Daniel Bryant
1 day ago3 min read
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Your Backstage Portal Can Do More: Kratix Shows What’s Possible
By integrating Kratix with Backstage, you transform a portal into a fully managed platform. Learn about the latest updates
Christopher Hedley
Jun 33 min read
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What We Learned Building a Prototype AI-Driven Dev Interface for Kratix
Like many software delivery teams, engineers at Syntasso have been experimenting with ways to integrate LLMs into our internal developer experience. In one of our recent internal hack days, I tried wiring up a Claude Desktop interface to Kratix using FastMCP. The idea was simple: could engineers ask natural-language questions, assemble a platform, and get something deployed without learning YAML or kubectl?

Shane Dowling
May 204 min read
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Rate Limiting with NGINX and Kratix
Platform engineers work hard to manage traffic and protect applications that are critical to business operations. When these applications receive too much traffic, they can slow down or crash completely, causing poor user experience and service outages. To solve this, these platform engineers can leverage Kratix, an open-source framework for building internal developer platforms, to automate the deployment, management, and maintenance of NGINX Ingress Controllers

Obusor Ezekiel Umesi
May 158 min read
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Beyond Terraform: Why Your IaC Strategy Needs to Evolve
Can you talk about Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) without talking about Terraform? Probably not! Over the years, Terraform  has been the...

Ikpemosi Victoria Braimoh
May 13 min read
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Kratix + Backstage: Upgrade Your Portal to a Platform
Organisations aiming for growth and efficiency require a fully automated internal developer platform, not just a centralised dashboard. If you’re aiming to improve developer productivity and ensure security and compliance, you should consider moving from an Internal Developer Portal to an Internal Developer Platform.

Joshua Adeyemi
Apr 154 min read
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Taming the Complexity of Cloud-Native Development with Internal Developer Platforms
The limitations of monolithic architectures—such as inflexibility and challenges with scalability and agility—have led to the widespread...

Amarachi Iheanacho
Mar 274 min read
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The IDP Revolution: Why Self-Service is the Key to Developer Empowerment
Software development should be seamless. The longer Developers have to wait, the less they create and this is why we need IDPs

Ikpemosi Victoria Braimoh
Mar 144 min read
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Kratix for Database Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Amazon RDS Deployment
As a platform engineer, your team launched a new application, and demand is growing rapidly. Thousands of users are signing up, so you...

Obusor Ezekiel Umesi
Mar 68 min read
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Building Scalable Internal Developer Platforms with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE)
Learn how to build scalable internal developer platforms (IDPs) with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE).
Abby Bangser
Feb 203 min read
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Integrating Promises with Terraform Enterprise
Learn how to integrate your existing Hashicorp Cloud Platform or Terraform Enterprise with Kratix in this blog.
Derik Evangelista
Jul 18, 20247 min read
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I Promise Not to Break Production
Promoting Promises through Environments with Kratix The heart of Kratix, the framework for building platforms, are the Promises. Via...
Derik Evangelista
Jul 12, 20247 min read
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Unleash added to Kratix Marketplace
Kratix is excited to announce the latest addition to our marketplace – Unleash, a tool for feature flag management. With the addition of...
Abby Bangser
May 8, 20232 min read
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Kratix and Compass: Reducing Toil for Platform Teams
Developers of software products have an unequivocal goal: to provide value to their customers. As developers of platform products it is...
Christopher Hedley
Apr 12, 20232 min read
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Platform engineering magic: Using Kratix to quickly deliver a pre-configured OpenTelemetry Operator
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Adriana Villela . Adriana Villela is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep , in Toronto, Canada, with...

Adriana Villela
Apr 3, 202315 min read
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Kratix and Crossplane: Building a Better Platform
Learn how to use Kratix and Crossplane together to build Platforms
Derik Evangelista
Feb 24, 20237 min read
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Become a Kratix Design Partner
Become a Kratix design partner: we help you build your platform with Kratix while you help us continue to learn what to build in Kratix.
Derik Evangelista
Feb 9, 20232 min read
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Building a Multi-Cluster Platform with Kratix and Flux
In this post we will highlight some of the design principles behind Kratix and briefly explain the whys behind them. We will then jump...
Derik Evangelista
Jan 26, 20236 min read
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Use case: Providing self service environments on demand using Kratix
One of Syntasso’s first real-world integrations was with a Fintech company that had an existing micro-services architecture running on...
Abby Bangser & Chris Hedley
Jan 17, 20232 min read
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Kratix and Backstage: A Perfect Pair
Backstage and Kratix were designed to work perfectly together to turn your portal into a platform.
Christopher Hedley
Jan 17, 20233 min read
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