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A Red Hat survey of 600 DevOps and security professionals found that 40% of organisations experienced Kubernetes misconfigurations in the past year. Over a quarter of respondents flagged access control issues, including RBAC, as high-risk security threats. In this context, understanding how to use ClusterRoles and ClusterRoleBindings safely and effectively is critical. This guide walks you through practical usage patterns, complete with hands-on examples you can test in your

You know the saying, “If we build it, they will come”? Well, it doesn’t hold up when building software today, and it definitely doesn’t work for internal platforms. You see, internal platforms are products. And like any product, they (should) have users. In this case, your users are your developers. That makes platform engineering a form of consumer software development, even if the consumer is inside your organisation.

When using Kubernetes, you will most likely use multiple Kubernetes Operators. This article explores the current state of Kubernetes Operators, the pain points you might face, and introduces Kratix—a promising alternative that abstracts operational logic into flexible, declarative workflows, potentially redefining how platform teams manage Kubernetes infrastructure.

A good internal platform is one that delivers speed, safety, efficiency, and scalability to meet the evolving needs of software teams.

In this article, we’ll explore why GitOps would benefit from a complementary set of tools to support imperative workflows. From multi-environment promotion to provisioning non-Kubernetes resources, it’s time for a new era of platform orchestration.

The internal developer platform (IDP) market is expanding, and more tools are emerging as complete solutions to your platform needs. It’s tempting to believe that selecting one of these tools off the shelf will instantly make your team more productive. This article explains why IDPs must be composable, allowing teams to design systems where parts can be added, replaced, or scaled to suit the organisation’s needs without rebuilding the entire platform.

As a platform engineer, while MongoDB solves your organisation’s data modelling problems, managing its deployments at scale to meet multiple teams' demands can quickly become a nightmare.  This guide will show how to use Kratix and Port to alleviate some of the pain of creating and managing MongoDB instances at scale.

You're probably using more tools than you think, and still not moving fast enough. As software teams scale and systems become more...

You can follow the supposed “best practices” in building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)  and still end up with something people...

At first glance, providing developers with Terraform modules appears straightforward; modules encapsulate best practices, making it easy for users to provision infrastructure. However, problems quickly surface

Explore what platform engineering can learn from over-the-air car updates; the secret is fleet management!

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?

The most successful platform businesses rely on the network effect. The more valuable stuff your platform offers, the more users will be attracted to join. The more users you have consuming value, the more producers will want to add valuable stuff to your platform and so on. Cat Morris, Staff Product Manager at Syntasso talks about this in her latest blog post

DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering are three closely related but different disciplines that solve software development problems in three different ways. Let's examine what each one does, how they differ and complement each other, and why you probably need all three.

Software development should be seamless. The longer Developers have to wait, the less they create and this is why we need IDPs

Platform Democracy is a model where developers, security teams, SREs, and even external service providers collaborate seamlessly.

As a platform engineer, your team launched a new application, and demand is growing rapidly. Thousands of users are signing up, so you...

Recognising these antipatterns is essential to building platforms that empower devs, ops, and, critically, everyone else in your org.

In Terraform, variables act as placeholders for dynamic values that can change at different stages of running a configuration, much like...

Internal platforms often manage highly sensitive data, making them prime targets for breaches, insider threats, and cyberattacks.