POWER UP CORTEX WITH KRATIX
Cortex provides a powerful engineering operations platform that comes out of the box with a service catalog, scorecards, engineering intelligence, and more.
Combining Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) and Cortex enables you and your team to:
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Ship faster: Automatically expose consistent platform capabilities as Cortex Workflows, without duplicating effort or asking developers to learn YAML or kubectl.
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Drive standardisation: Enforce compliance per service and across the entire fleet with SKE. Surface operational gaps in your organisation directly in Cortex Scorecards.
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Observe everything: Manage infrastructure and services in a testable, versioned, and consistent format.
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Cortex Workflows are the gateway to your platform
Cortex gives your teams unmatched visibility and standards enforcement. When paired with Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE), you can turn those insights into instant, governed self-service action.
SKE maps directly to Cortex Workflows through dynamic, easy-to-configure Promises, making self-service more powerful and far easier to maintain at scale. Developers get a UI-driven experience for requesting and managing platform capabilities. Platform teams get a single, governed contract they can actually maintain.
Iterate faster with self-service actions that extend what Cortex already knows about your services.
Ensure standards are understood and followed across the organisation.
Make day 1, day 2, and day 1000 operations a breeze for a single service or an entire fleet.
Stop Managing Exceptions, Start Driving Standards
Cortex gives engineering leaders a single pane of glass, from service health and scorecard status to ownership and on-call data. But that visibility is only as good as the data powering it. If catalog entries are stale and workflows are disconnected from the real platform, teams end up managing exceptions rather than driving standards.
SKE keeps the platform consistent. Cortex keeps the organisation accountable. Together, they turn Engineering Excellence from an aspiration into a guarantee.
Today
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Complex self-service use cases land on the platform team, who have to repeatedly design bespoke solutions
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Catalog entries go stale as the underlying platform changes
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Inconsistent service configuration creates a growing maintenance burden across the organisation
With Cortex + SKE
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Promises manages everything from provisioning and policy enforcement to Day 2 lifecycle operations
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Cortex entities are automatically registered and updated to reflect the actual state of your platform
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Cortex provides Scorecards, engineering intelligence, and more, and is backed by a platform that enhances workflows
How Does Syntasso Kratix Enterprise Integrate with Cortex?
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) acts as the platform orchestrator between Cortex and your infrastructure layer. SKE connects to Cortex via the Cortex API and, once configured, dynamically creates and manages Workflows based on the Promises defined in your platform, keeping Cortex in sync automatically as your platform evolves.
Kratix Promises are the core abstraction. A Promise defines a platform capability, such as a database, CI/CD pipeline, or Kubernetes cluster, as a self-service API. It encapsulates validation, provisioning, policy enforcement, and Day 2 lifecycle management into a single, governed contract between platform and development teams. When surfaced in Cortex as Workflows, developers can request and manage those resources directly from the portal, without ever touching YAML or kubectl.
SKE also automatically registers and updates entities in Cortex, representing the Kubernetes resources it manages, so your service catalog reflects the real state of your platform, not a snapshot from six months ago.
Why Should You Care About Investing in the Platform behind the Portal?
Application
Developers 👩💻
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Request databases, pipelines, clusters, and more directly from Cortex. No YAML, no tickets, no waiting.
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Reduce the burden on individual teams with platform-supported dependencies.
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Gain faster, more reliable access to the tools and services you need.
Platform
Engineers 👷🏽
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Define platform capabilities just once as Promises; SKE automatically keeps Cortex Workflows and catalog entries up to date.
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Reduce sprawl with a consistent, scalable service model.
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Balance team autonomy with centralised policy enforcement and guardrails
Organisation
Leaders 👩✈️
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Trust Cortex Scorecards to drive standards and surface gaps.
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Enable your platform team to drive engineering excellence with deep visibility into the current state of engineering operations.
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Treat your platform as a product: easy to consume, measure, govern, and continuously improve
LET YOUR PLATFORM FULFIL ITS PROMISE
CHOOSE SERVICES TEAMS ALREADY LOVE
Enable teams to ship software quicker by composing existing applications, services, and infrastructure components available as Promises in the Kratix Marketplace.
Deploy Redis, AWS S3 buckets, cert-manager, and more within minutes.
SELF-SERVE VIA API, PORTAL, OR GITOPS
Get value from your platform by using the most appropriate user experience for the task at hand or the user's requirements.
Integrate services using APIs, deploy apps via a portal, and configure infrastructure using GitOps.
FREE ENGINEERS TO CREATE & SHARE
Enable multiple teams to co-create your platform using the popular inner source model of contribution.
Centralised platform engineering teams can source, test, and integrate services from across your organisation.
TAME THE FLEET: AUTOMATE WORKFLOWS
Encode and share policy, guardrails, and compliance requirements in Workflows.
Centralised platform teams can ensure policy is enforced globally, manage upgrades, and correct configuration drift as the underlying compute and cluster fleet scales.
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