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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.

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!

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...

When using Kubernetes, you will most likely use multiple Kubernetes Operators. This article explores the current state of Kubernetes Operators, the pain points you might face, and introduces Kratix—a promising alternative that abstracts operational logic into flexible, declarative workflows, potentially redefining how platform teams manage Kubernetes infrastructure.

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

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

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

Platform Democracy is a model where developers, security teams, SREs, and even external service providers collaborate seamlessly.

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).

Hello again, avid readers. Sorry that it’s been so long! I was originally optimistic that I’d be able to do monthly updates. I’ve since...

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

This X thread about platform automation and abstraction from the ever-insightful Kelsey Hightower has been living in my head rent-free for t

Learn how to use Kratix and Crossplane together to build Platforms

Backstage and Kratix were designed to work perfectly together to turn your portal into a platform.