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Platform Engineering
IDP Foundation Sprint for a production-ready platform
In eight weeks you get an internal developer platform that works: built on open source, deployed in your environment, in your team's hands — free of lock-in.
Duration
8 weeks
Usual next step
Platform Operations Partnership
The problem
Building a platform from the CNCF landscape is an integration project, not a selection project. The components are free. Wiring Kubernetes, GitOps, a developer portal, observability, secrets, policy, and templating into something a developer can actually use, and that an operations team can actually run, is where the months disappear.
Teams that start from scratch typically spend six to twelve months before the first developer self-serves anything. Most of that time is spent solving problems that have already been solved.
What we build
A production-shaped platform foundation, deployed in your environment, on your cloud or your sovereign cloud target, with:
A GitOps control plane as the single source of truth for platform and workload configuration
Self-service provisioning for the three to five resources your developers wait for most today: typically an application environment, a database, a message broker, a namespace with sensible defaults
Two golden paths, from repository template to running production workload, for the application archetypes that cover most of your estate
A developer portal with a populated service catalog and software templates
Observability wired in by default: metrics, logs, and traces available to a developer without a ticket
Policy and security baseline: admission control, secrets management, image provenance, and network defaults
Platform documentation and a runbook written for your operators, not for us
Every component is open source and standard. Your team can operate it without us, extend it without us, and move it without us. That is the point.
How it runs
Weeks | Phase |
|---|---|
1 to 2 | Architecture and scope: target platform design, golden path selection, environment access |
3 to 6 | Build: control plane, provisioning, golden paths, portal, observability, policy baseline |
7 | Hardening: failure modes, upgrade path, backup and restore, security review |
8 | Enablement: pairing with your platform team, runbook handover, adoption plan |
We build with your engineers, not instead of them. Two of your platform engineers embedded in the sprint is the difference between a platform your team owns and a platform your team inherits.
Who it is for
Organizations that have decided to build an internal developer platform and want a credible foundation fast, rather than a twelve-month integration project.
What happens next
Most teams follow the sprint with an adoption phase: onboarding the first three to five product teams onto the golden paths. Some hand day-2 operations to us under a Platform Operations Partnership while their team focuses on adoption and capability building.
Frequently asked questions
Which tools do you build on?
Standard, widely adopted open source: Kubernetes as the runtime, a GitOps engine such as Argo CD or Flux, Backstage or a comparable portal, and the CNCF observability stack. The exact selection follows your environment and requirements, not a fixed reference stack.
Can the sprint run in a regulated or air-gapped environment?
Yes. We have delivered platform foundations in environments with restricted egress and formal change control. It affects sequencing and adds some lead time for approvals, which we plan for in weeks one and two.
What happens if we cannot embed two platform engineers?
The sprint still works, but the handover gets heavier. We then extend the enablement phase and record architecture decisions in more depth, so the first engineers you hire afterwards can take over from the documentation.
Interested?
Describe where you stand and what you need to decide. You will get back a scope, a price, and an honest take on whether this sprint is the right fit.