Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platf... Whitney Lee & Viktor Farcic
Whitney Lee, Viktor Farcic
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
In the sprawling landscape of cloud-native technologies, developers often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices and the complexity of integrating them. This talk, "Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform," presented by Whitney Lee and Viktor Farcic, tackles this challenge head-on by demonstrating how to construct an **Internal Developer Platform (IDP)**. The core premise revolves around a metaphorical "Hero," representing application source code, aspiring to run in production. The speakers illustrate how an IDP, built on Kubernetes APIs, can streamline this journey, abstracting away intricate infrastructure details and empowering developers with self-service capabilities.
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This talk delivered a highly practical and actionable blueprint for constructing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Kubernetes APIs as the unifying control plane. The speakers effectively demonstrated how to abstract complex infrastructure, enforce critical policies, and automate workflows with real-world tools like Crossplane, Kyverno, and Argo Workflows. The interactive 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format, combined with live demos, made this a valuable session for anyone serious about platform engineering, showing how to move beyond buzzwords to actual implementation.