2 posts tagged with "automation"

In modern platform engineering, building a developer self-service portal isn’t just about provisioning — it’s about ensuring the entire golden path reliably completes, from infrastructure to runtime configuration. Whether you're spinning up environments for feature previews or onboarding a new client, orchestration is the logic that holds everything together — especially when things go wrong. Your orchestrator should let you observe state transitions and trigger specific commands accordingly—whether it's provisioning, reconciling drift, or handling failures.

While cloud services offer great flexibility in their usage and consumption, their growth has also led to an increase in the supply, with a multiplication of APIs, tools, and platforms to enhance, facilitate, and optimize access to cloud services. [1] This proliferation of offerings is one of the reasons that has led to the heterogeneity of cloud environments and the difficulty of their interoperability. [2]. It is now widely accepted that “cloud resource management, traditionally handled by system administrators, must now be automated to be efficient, secure, and dynamic.” [3]

From this perspective, Ops teams and developers must be supported by complex engineering platforms called Internal Developer Platforms. These platforms must ensure requirements for quality of service, security, and cloud cost, while also allowing administrators access for audit, customization, and modification purposes.