As companies transition from traditional DevOps to Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), they aim to reduce the cognitive load on developers by centralizing tooling and governance, often managed by platform engineering teams. This approach retains the self-service benefits of DevOps while alleviating the burden on developers, allowing them to focus on application development without needing to understand the intricacies of infrastructure management. MongoDB's Atlas Kubernetes Operator facilitates this shift by enabling the management of Atlas resources declaratively through Kubernetes-native workflows, integrating seamlessly with systems like Crossplane. Crossplane further enhances this by enabling infrastructure management across environments using standard Kubernetes APIs, allowing for consistent, declarative, and version-controlled infrastructure provisioning. By abstracting infrastructure provisioning behind Compositions and Composite Resources, Crossplane allows platform engineers to define reusable blueprints for common services, simplifying decision-making for developers and facilitating changes in centrally managed templates. This method empowers developers to deliver faster while maintaining security and governance oversight, thereby meeting business requirements efficiently.