From Kubernetes to PaaS to Developer Control Planes
Summary
Previous articles have looked at these transformations, converging on a few themes: A “shift left” is afoot, Kubernetes has become the default orchestration system and the cloud native ecosystem is robust and healthy. Later, this evolved into a straightforward PaaS phase where dashboards became common, and technologies like modern source control (git) and application performance monitoring (New Relic) were dominant. It’s all the other stuff that’s the hard part now: linking everything together and making it work.” — Kasper Nissen, lead platform architect, Lunar Bank The move toward a Kubernetes-based, developer-friendly PaaS, and standardizing the experience, does not mean removing freedom to choose and use tools developers or the wider team prefer. In production environments, platform adoption provides a set of useful abstractions and creates conditions for two important signs of maturation: • Predictability: An ability to focus on workflows, tooling interoperability, and the inner and outer dev loops. The developer control plane delivers on this idea, providing a centralized place to rally around shared standards and identify common workflows, and also encouraging tech integration/interoperability, which ultimately can drive the next phase of cloud native maturity.
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