Speaker: Cora Iberkleid, Developer Advocate, VMware Date: July 2023

1. │©2022 VMware, Inc.
Make the Right Thing
the Obvious Thing
The Journey to Internal Developer Platforms
Cora Iberkleid
Developer Advocate- VMware
@ciberkleid

2. 2
What
Internal
is an
Developer
Platform?

3. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
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4. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

5. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

6. Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Internal
Developer
Platform
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

7. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

8. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

9. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

10. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Here is my code
Run it on the cloud
I do not care how
- Onsi Fakhouri
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11. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

12. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…) Docker
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

13. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…) Docker
Docker
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

14. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…) Docker
Docker
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Kubernetes
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

15. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…) Docker
Docker
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Kubernetes
GitOps
Kubernetes
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

16. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…) Docker
Docker
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Kubernetes
GitOps
Kubernetes
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

17. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…) Docker
Docker
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Kubernetes
GitOps
Kubernetes
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

18. Internal
Developer
Platform
Internal
Developer
Platform
Infrastructure
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud
DevOps
DevOps
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…)
Platform
as a Service
(Heroku, CF…) Docker
Docker
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Containers
as a Service,
Microservices
explosion
Kubernetes
GitOps
Kubernetes
GitOps
Internal
Developer
Platform
Photo by Raphaël Biscaldi on Unsplash

19. A platform for Developers
Application-centric abstractions
SLAs (security, resiliency, scalability, performance, compliance…)
Automated plumbing: from ”git push” to production
Feedback!
Consolidated view of status, logs, metrics, tracing, alerts
App-centric, from “git push” to runtime
Information Management
APIs, docs, ownership, dependencies, resources…
Facilitate sharing, discovery, and contributions
Enablement
“Golden Path” → easy and obvious
Patterns, conventions, solutions
Deployment &
Runtime
Observability
Information
Management
Enablement &
Consistency

20. Make the right thing
the easy thing
Photo by Ishan @seefromthesky on Unsplash

21. Make the right path
the easy path
Make the right thing
the obvious thing
Photo by Ishan @seefromthesky on Unsplash

22. 22
Backstage
An open platform for building developer portals
Restore order
without
compromising
autonomy
Software catalog
Software templates
Docs-like-code
Extensive search
Customize with plugins

23. │©2022 VMware, Inc.
Thank You!
Questions?