PROTOCOL_ID: PE-02 CLASS: REUSABLE_PLATFORMS
Platform Engineering Consulting
We turn your infrastructure into a product engineers choose, not one they route around.
Difficulty: 3 / 3
Engagement overview
A platform only pays off when teams adopt it. We build golden paths that make the right way the easy way: a paved road from commit to production that encodes your standards instead of documenting them in a wiki nobody reads.
Underneath, reusable Crossplane compositions expose infrastructure as typed, self-service APIs, with Backstage as the front door and Argo CD reconciling every change. Policy lives in code through Kyverno, so guardrails hold without a human gate. The result is a platform that scales your best engineers across every team.
Illustrative schematic, not live telemetry
Tools in this engagement
Tools in this engagement
- Crossplane
- Backstage
- Argo CD
- Kyverno
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Terraform
From assessment to production
- 01
Discovery
Map developer journeys and the friction points that push teams off the paved road today.
- 02
Golden path design
Define the self-service contract: what teams request, what they get back, and what the platform owns.
- 03
API build
Implement Crossplane compositions and the Backstage catalogue as typed, versioned interfaces.
- 04
Rollout
Ship to a pilot team, wire Argo CD reconciliation, and enforce policy with Kyverno.
- 05
Adoption
Measure usage, close the gaps that block self-service, and hand the platform roadmap to your team.
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Straight answers
Frequently asked questions
Do we need a platform team before this is worth doing?
No, but you need at least one pilot product team willing to be the first user, and a named owner on your side. A golden path with no first consumer becomes a reference implementation nobody adopts. The platform team can be one or two people at the start; what cannot be missing is someone empowered to decide the standards.
Why build an internal platform instead of buying one?
Often you should buy, and we will say so. Building pays off when your constraints are the product — regulated data residency, an existing identity model, a cloud the market tooling does not cover well. That last case is one we have lived: we wrote and maintain provider-ovh, the Crossplane provider for OVHcloud, because the ecosystem had a gap. When your constraints are ordinary, a bought platform is the cheaper answer.
How is this different from Kubernetes consulting?
Kubernetes consulting gets the clusters right. Platform engineering is the layer above: the self-service APIs, catalogue and guardrails that let product teams ship without learning Kubernetes at all. Most engagements need the first before the second, and if your clusters are not yet solid we will tell you to start there instead.