Start here A few weeks ago I wrote an article about Port and some of its use cases. I realized that maybe I should also cover what an Internal Developer Platform, or IDP for short, is. So to get us kicked off, we are going back to basics and exploring IDPs and their various flavors. An Internal Developer Platform is one of those terms that somehow gets less clear the more people use it. ...
Why bother Every team eventually hits the moment where a developer needs a project, account, sub, or a bucket, or a pubsub, and the options are: file a ticket and wait three days, or DM the one person who knows the Terraform. Neither scales. So the developer does what developers do, which is find a way around you. They write a shell script. Then someone copies the shell script. Six months later you’ve got fourteen “projects” with no consistent IAM, no state backend anyone can find, and a bucket named test-final-real that’s somehow in production. ...