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When embracing cloud and container technologies, it’s tempting to think of fleet management as a challenge for tomorrow. But the reality is that the majority of organisations quickly bump into the need to run multiple VMs, container, and Kubernetes clusters. This is where Kratix comes in. In this guide, we’ll explore how Kratix enables you to orchestrate and deploy services seamlessly across a fleet.

Platform engineering is full of trade-offs. Cost, speed, or reduced risk. Developer autonomy or governance and compliance. We hear it all the time: “We can’t have both.” But that’s not true. When you combine Kratix Promises with a Secrets Manager, you get both. This isn’t an either / or story. It’s a great AND story that brings together your developer experience and enterprise-grade security.

Many organisations have invested heavily in Terraform, and rightly so. It’s a mature Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that automates infrastructure and streamlines workflows. However, when building an internal developer platform (IDP), IaC alone isn’t enough. To scale across teams and business needs, all while supporting seamless fleet management, you also need developer-friendly platform APIs and abstractions. That is where Kratix comes in.

Most internal platforms don’t fail on day one: they fail on day 2, 200, or 2000. What starts as a solid solution to today’s needs often turns into tomorrow’s bottleneck: brittle delivery processes, endless ticket queues, and systems so complex they collapse under their own weight. At Syntasso, we built Kratix to flip this pattern.

Platform engineers often lack visibility into their platform. With the new SKE GUI, that changes. Now available to Syntasso Kratix Enterprise users, it lets you view all Promises and resources, track their states, debug in real time, and explore how everything connects, all from a single interface.

Helm is one of the most widely used tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem. But Helm has its limits, especially when it comes to building internal platforms that scale across business requirements, teams, and technologies. In this blog, I’ll walk through how Kratix lets you take your existing Helm charts and turn them into powerful platform APIs with a single kratix-cli command.

According to the CNCF’s GitOps survey, observability is one of the biggest challenges GitOps adopters face . Platform teams often lack...

A guide to building internal developer platforms (IDPs) with Kratix and Crossplane

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.

By integrating Kratix with Backstage, you transform a portal into a fully managed platform. Learn about the latest updates

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?

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

Can you talk about Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) without talking about Terraform? Probably not! Over the years, Terraform  has been the...

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.

The limitations of monolithic architectures—such as inflexibility and challenges with scalability and agility—have led to the widespread...

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

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

Learn how to build scalable internal developer platforms (IDPs) with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE).

Learn how to integrate your existing Hashicorp Cloud Platform or Terraform Enterprise with Kratix in this blog.

Promoting Promises through Environments with Kratix The heart of Kratix, the framework for building platforms, are the Promises. Via...