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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.

When the CNCF Platforms Working Group published the Platform Engineering Maturity Model in late 2023, it felt like an important milestone. Now, I’m excited to share that the next stage in this work is underway. After almost a year of deliberation, testing, and editing, it’s now available in prototype form.

As internal platforms evolve, composability has become a key way to build safe, scalable systems that still give developers freedom. This post explains how composable environments and business-aware PaaS help deliver the value of platform engineering, and how to use them without making common mistakes.

Terms like “Platform as a Product” and “X-as-a-service” are everywhere, yet many companies still centralise all platform responsibilities in a single team. This results in cognitive overload, bottlenecks, and missed opportunities to tap into institutional knowledge. This article reframes the discussion from “headcount” to “collaboration.”

When we talk about internal developer platforms (IDPs), we’re often talking about abstracting complexity away from application teams, as explored in our post on platform democracy. But how far should that abstraction go? Poorly defined CI/CD abstractions can stall delivery and erode platform trust. This post examines how platform teams can avoid common pitfalls and design flexible, composable abstractions that empower developers while ensuring consistency and compliance.