Self-Service Environments via Declarative APIs

Explore the creation, maintenance, and one-click consumption of various types of environments in this 14-minute conference talk from PlatformCon 2023. Learn how environments package infrastructure and configuration to capture application dependencies while maintaining best practices around security and compliance. Discover how kcp, a control plane fully compatible with Kubernetes declarative API, can be used as a backend to power your platform. Understand how kcp workspace types are suitable for representing environments, from development environments running locally to production environments. Gain insights into how developers can instantiate environments and quickly start developing with all dependent services available in their kcp workspace. Using Knative Eventing connected to Apache Kafka as a concrete example, speakers Lionel Villard and Aleksander Slominski from IBM demonstrate the practical applications of these concepts in platform engineering.