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ORCHESTRATE YOUR EXISTING PLATFORM TOOLS FOR THE AI ERA
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and Agentic (SKA) transform your existing tools into a governed, self-service platform.
From Backstage, Cortex, and Port to MCP, agent skills, Terraform, and Crossplane. Give developers and AI agents the freedom to move faster without sacrificing visibility, control, or compliance. No rip-and-replace. No shadow AI.
COMMON
USE CASES
Supercharge Backstage to support teams
on day 1, day 2, and day 2000
Organisations typically deploy portals like Backstage to deal with developer-focused day 1 issues, such as scaffolding new applications. Kratix provides the platform behind the portal, enabling the interface to be decoupled from service delivery. This also supports developers, SREs, DevOps teams, etc., to access a delightful interface from day 1 while also ensuring platform engineers can maintain the underlying platform and capabilities for day 2 and beyond.
Reduce sprawl and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Ensuring clear ownership of infrastructure as code can be challenging, especially as the underlying platform grows. Localised issues often require fixes that have a global impact, as modules, boundaries, and team ownership blur. Kratix wraps IaC solutions, such as Terraform, and provides an incremental solution for regaining control.
Bridge siloes, promote inner source, and enable
co-creation of platform capabilities
Kratix provides a common framework, workflow, and guardrails for platform-building that enables effective collaboration across teams, departments, and traditional organisational silos. Platform engineers can create core services and set globally enforced governance. Application, SRE, and enabling teams can create additional reusable services, workflows, and policies and contribute these back to the core using an inner sourcing model.
Stop shadow AI before it starts
AI is accelerating the rate at which code, infrastructure, and workloads are created, faster than platform teams can govern them manually. Business specialists are vibe coding and deploying tools each week. Developers are running agent coding factories. Without a governed platform layer, the result is invisible, ungoverned, and unmaintainable services. SKE gives AI agents and automation the same governed, self-service abstractions your human developers use. Requests go through the same Promises, the same Workflows, and the same policy enforcement, whether the requester is a person or an agent. Your platform scales with AI adoption instead of being bypassed by it.
“We demonstrate how using Kratix, a workload-centric framework, and Backstage, an extensible developer portal, enables the creation of self-service platforms that balance standardization with adaptability.”
Hossein Salahi, Tech Lead &
Fabian Brundke, Senior Platform Engineer @ Liquid Reply
“NatWest is using Kratix to simplify everything. We can start with simple use cases, start small, and iterate on that platform journey [...] And in so doing, we reduce the toil and cognitive load developers face, helping them be productive from day one.”
Chris Plank, Lead Enterprise Architect and Platform as Product leader at NatWest
“(Instead of AI generating Terraform) I pitched Kratix; the concept being that instead of letting AI freestyle infrastructure code, you give it structured abstractions to work with.
A platform layer that actually grows with what users need, rather than something you have to re-architect every time requirements change.”
Phillip Morton, Platform Architect at The Access Group
COMPLETE THE PLATFORM PUZZLE WITH CROSSPLANE + KRATIX
Turn Crossplane compositions into governed self-service
Crossplane is powerful for infrastructure provisioning, but composing and governing it at scale gets complex. SKE adds the workflow, policy enforcement, and fleet-wide management layer that Crossplane alone doesn't provide.
“Unlike tools that just template resources (Helm) or provision cloud infrastructure (Crossplane), Kratix focuses on platform workflows for the complete lifecycle of deploying, configuring, and managing capabilities across multiple clusters.”
Nikos Nikolakakis, Principal Site Reliability Engineer @ Workable
"We use a tool called Kratix… it makes the whole API workflow thing a breeze because it’s all Kubernetes CRDs at the end of the day.”
Nitish Malhotra, Staff Software Engineer at Veeam Software