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From Terraform Modules to Developer-Friendly Platform APIs: Scaling Your IDP with Kratix
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.
Abby Bangser
Sep 224 min read
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Kratix Architecture: Antifragile by Design
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.
Abby Bangser
Sep 115 min read
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Introducing the SKE GUI: Complete Visibility for Your Platform Builders
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.
Cat Morris
Sep 93 min read
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Turn Helm Charts into Scalable Platform APIs with Kratix
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.
Abby Bangser
Sep 54 min read
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GitOps Health Checks: How Kratix Closes the Feedback Loop
According to the CNCF’s GitOps survey, observability is one of the biggest challenges GitOps adopters face . Platform teams often lack...
Jake Klein
Aug 45 min read
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Crossplane and Kratix: A Powerful Duo for Platform Engineering Success
A guide to building internal developer platforms (IDPs) with Kratix and Crossplane
Derik Evangelista
Jul 116 min read
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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
Jun 103 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 7, 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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