How to build an Internal Developer Platform
Blog post from Humanitec
An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is built by platform teams within large enterprises using a combination of open source, commercial, and in-house tools. It reduces ticket ops, standardizes config setups and workflows, cuts lead time and time to market (TTM). A well-designed IDP follows a platform as a product approach and can enable true DevOps. Unlike PaaS solutions, IDPs are not readily available as off-the-shelf solutions and cover the software delivery cycle end-to-end including infrastructure orchestration, application configuration, deployment management, environment management, and RBAC. The architecture of an IDP consists of five main planes: Developer Control Plane, Integration and Delivery Plane, Resource Plane, Monitoring and Logging Plane, and Security Plane. A Minimum Viable Platform (MVP) is a representative first version of the platform in the context of a "HelloWorld" scenario and should be built before expanding to an enterprise-grade IDP.
| Trend | Post Mentions | Total Month Mentions | Posts | Companies | MoM |
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| Platform Engineering | 42 | 292 | 56 | 32 | -34% |
| Developer Experience | 3 | 254 | 166 | 85 | -22% |
| Kubernetes | 2 | 2,064 | 217 | 83 | +11% |
| Observability | 2 | 1,227 | 261 | 93 | -15% |
| Secrets Management | 2 | 997 | 111 | 56 | +132% |
| Real-time | 1 | 2,334 | 631 | 194 | -8% |
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