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When building a platform, engineering leaders often focus on technology choices without first building a shared vision with developers, specialist teams and other stakeholders. This results in low adoption or, in the worst case, wasted investment. This article will provide a practical leadership framework for securing developer support before a single platform component is built.

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.

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.