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Available now for Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) users, the Promise Testing Framework enables you to focus on developing your Promise code, while we handle testing to ensure it works as expected. Check out the Promise Testing Framework docs!

Giving developers autonomy to provision infrastructure is now a table-stakes requirement for modern internal developer platforms (IDPs). What happens when a critical vulnerability is found in a shared service such as a database? This is where Kratix steps in. It enables you to build internal platforms where developers can self-serve, while providing platform engineers with powerful tools to manage services across the fleet.

Platform engineering promises to accelerate delivery and reduce complexity, but if not approached deliberately, it can quickly become a cost sink. This article examines the hidden costs in platform engineering and explores cost-optimisation strategies to maintain a lean approach without compromising innovation.

Many organisations have successfully adopted GitOps for application delivery, but platform infrastructure provisioning often remains stubbornly manual, especially within enterprises. And by the end of this guide, you’ll see what this looks like in practice. You’ll request a Redis instance with a simple YAML manifest, Kratix will process the request, and Flux will automatically deploy the resources across your clusters.

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.

Welcome to our first big Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) strategy update for 2025! Sorry, it has taken us so long: we’ve been busy at Syntasso 😅 If you’re new here: Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) is THE Platform Orchestrator for enterprises. By providing key integrations and support, it levels up the open-source Kratix framework, enabling you to deliver internal platforms more efficiently. This makes it painless to build a platform that is ready for Day 1, Day 2, and Day

Scaling Prometheus for multiple teams is no small feat as each team typically needs a dedicated instance to monitor their applications. This post shows how Kratix lets you expose Prometheus as a reusable and GitOps-friendly service.

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

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.

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

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

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

At KubeCon, Phill Morton and Abby Bangser delivered a workshop that championed the principle that “working code wins.” Drawing on the experience at The Access Group (TAG), the UK’s largest software business headquartered in the UK, Phill and Abby showcased how internal platforms, particularly those powered by Kratix and Kubernetes, can accelerate innovation and enable scalable developer self-service.

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.

Syntasso made a series of announcements at KubeCon EU 2025, including a Google Cloud partnership, increasing SKE adoption, and new features.

In our first webinar of 2025, Daniel Bryant was joined by Abby Bangser and Jake Klein to explore the topic "Building Scalable Internal Devel

Syntasso Announces Partnership with Google Cloud to make SKE Available via Google Cloud Marketplace

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