Posts Tagged developer-portals

The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting platform engineering to optimize their software delivery and operations. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have platform engineering teams to provide reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery. Additionally, by 2027, 80% of large enterprises will leverage platform engineering to scale DevOps initiatives in hybrid cloud environments effectively.

This shift is driven by the rise of cloud adoption, where many enterprises face the challenge of uncoordinated application teams deploying workloads in different ways across various cloud platforms. This siloed approach often results in a lack of standardization, security risks, and operational inefficiencies.

Platform engineering offers a strategic solution to these issues. This guide provides the essential steps to successfully implement platform engineering, from laying the foundation to scaling internal developer platforms (IDPs) for future growth.

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Org-only Template Gallery and Setting Default Repositories: Streamline Your Development

Org-only Template Gallery and Setting Default Repositories: Streamline Your Development

We’re constantly evolving the New Project Wizard to make it the preferred choice for platform teams to empower their internal teams to deploy resources quickly and in adherence to organizational standards. In January, we launched the Developer Portal Gallery to boost development velocity and reduce operational friction. Since then, we have seen strong adoption from our customers and received several new requests. We are excited to share the latest improvements we’ve made.

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Beyond Productivity: Developer Experience is Business Critical

Beyond Productivity: Developer Experience is Business Critical

“Developer experience is hard to sell,” said Cleve Littlefield, Engineering Manager at Pulumi, during a casual meeting. With experience as both an end-user developer and a lead in self-service platform implementation, Cleve’s observation stuck with me.

Though I have expertise in leading implementations and upgrades for internal platforms, none were specifically for developers. However, experience remains vital across departments, addressing tools, processes, systems, and best practices, aiming to reduce cognitive load, increase productivity, enhance collaboration, boost communication and much more.

Intriguingly, engineering teams may perceive its value differently. Therefore, we will dive into the concept of developer experience, aka DevEx, which, in truth, should translate into a competitive advantage.

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Developer Portal Gallery: Org Templates, Pulumi Templates and AI Generated Templates

Developer Portal Gallery: Org Templates, Pulumi Templates and AI Generated Templates

Late last year we announced Pulumi for Developer Portals: a suite of features designed to empower organizations to construct robust internal developer portals. Since launching the level of adoption and customer interest has led us to make further improvements to enhance developer productivity and collaboration in the authoring experience. We are excited to announce the latest enhancement in Pulumi Cloud: the introduction of a template gallery in New Project Wizard, making creating cloud infrastructure easier than ever.

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Building Developer Portals with Pulumi

Building Developer Portals with Pulumi

At Pulumi, we work with organizations that range from a few platform team members to entire departments for managing infrastructure. Many organizations, like Mercedes-Benz, have built internal developer platforms on top of Pulumi to enable developers to self-serve infrastructure templates, and partners like AWS Proton and Port have built integrations with Pulumi to enable self-service scenarios. We are thrilled to have announced yesterday the launch of our new suite of tools to build internal developer portals with Pulumi, a result of working directly with our customers to understand their problems and how Pulumi can solve it.

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Pulumi for Platform Teams: New Features for Developer Portals, Policy and Deployments

Pulumi for Platform Teams: New Features for Developer Portals, Policy and Deployments

Over the last two years, we’ve seen a huge surge in adoption of Pulumi by Platform Teams – centralized teams within a business responsible for building out core cloud infrastructure and providing tools to the rest of the organization to maximize the productivity, cost efficacy, compliance and velocity of application and service delivery throughout the organization. These teams use Pulumi to manage their own cloud infrastructure complexity, to offer best practices components to their organizations, to enforce organizational policy, and to drive infrastructure delivery automation.

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Backstage Plugin Now Available for Pulumi

Backstage Plugin Now Available for Pulumi

Backstage is an open source framework for building developer portals, created at Spotify and donated to the CNCF. It allows engineers to create their own development portal internally. Backstage makes it easy for teams to create a unified portal for their infrastructure tooling, software templates, services, documentation and plugins for external tools.

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