COMPLETE THE
PLATFORM PUZZLE WITH
CROSSPLANE + KRATIX
Infrastructure management is required for all types of software delivery. Crossplane has proven that the stereotypes of slow-moving, complex-to-configure, and hard-to-maintain infrastructure no longer have to be true.
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) enables organisations to adopt powerful new technologies like Crossplane without needing to throw away their existing tools:
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Ship faster: Use the right tool for the job by only exposing composable platform APIs that can be consumed via UI, APIs, and CLI.
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Reduce costs: Co-create platform APIs and abstractions, enabling users and experts to work independently without compromising outcomes.
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Deliver safer: Ensure infrastructure best practices and policies are implemented across your fleet on day one, day two, and beyond.
Regain control over your technology decisions
Are you struggling to manage one migration after another in your tools choice? Do you have some flavour of Cloud CLI scripts, Puppet or Chef, Terraform or Crossplane, and others all combining to complete your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy despite varying levels of decay? Do you want to use cutting-edge technology but are nervous about committing to it before deeper tests are run?
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) gives platforms the abstractions they need to not only start a migration with confidence but also complete it with limited business impact. It enables you to own your integration layer and manage any number of infrastructure backends including leveraging migration techniques such as Incremental Replacement, Parallel Coexistence, and Redirection and Routing.
Enabling faster and
easier user adoption by providing self-service
via APIs not code
Manage both
technical and business requirements as a single package
Manage updates to resources on day 1, 2 and 2000 across all of your infrastructure tools
INFRASTRUCTURE AS THE FOUNDATION FOR A BROADER PLATFORM
Today
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) acts as either a bottleneck or a poison pill.
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Protecting application developers from IaC makes them beholden to wait for experts to work with the infrastructure code.
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Asking application developers to use IaC is an upfront and ongoing cost, slowing their delivery of business value.
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Changes tools creates a big overhead because the cost to maintain the processes behind two or more tools is crippling.
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Provisioning, configuration, and business processes are handled in different tools causing pain and risk when changes are needed across these tools.
With Syntasso Kratix Enterprise
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Application developers don't know or care what language is used for provisioning infrastructure.
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User portals and other interfaces interact with business relevant APIs rather than infrastructure tools directly.
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Operational specialist implementations can evolve without user impact.
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Processes are defined once and reused across the organisation, allowing emergent policy changes to be rolled out at pace.
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Manage a single package that keeps such diverse tools as Backstage UIs, Crossplane provisioning, Ansible configuration, and ServiceNow business processes aligned, versioned, and tested.
Integrate Syntasso Kratix Enterprise with Crossplane
Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE) is the "intelligent glue" that joins your interface of choice and infrastructure as a code layer, acting as a platform orchestrator. SKE enables platform engineering teams to create and offer everything-as-a-service (XaaS) that developers can consume via a UI, API, or CLI.
Your Crossplane implementation can focus on what it does best -- provisioning and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) -- and Kratix supports platform engineering teams in providing composable platform components that can be managed effectively on day one, day two, or day two thousand.
Why Should You Care About
Integrating Crossplane with Kratix?
Application
Developers 👩💻
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Leave Infrastructure as Code to the experts and access your dependencies through APIs.
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Forget about backlog items being added by infra teams. They can independently update tools.
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Access infrastructure dependencies your way, including portal, API, or CLI
Platform
Engineers 👷🏽
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Share an API with users instead of code, enabling you to choose the right tool for the job without impacting users.
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Crossplane is a platform capability like any other, configure and manage a fleet of installations across clusters.
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Make platform changes atomic. Update user interfaces, business process automation, and IaC as a single package.
Organisation
Leaders 👩✈️
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Your internal processes are a product. Curate and control these solutions with ease.
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Encapsulated logic makes both platform and application engineers productive faster.
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Design and uphold a shared responsibility model between application developers and platform engineers.
LET YOUR PLATFORM FULFIL ITS PROMISE
CHOOSE SERVICES TEAMS ALREADY LOVE
Enable teams to ship software quicker by composing existing applications, services, and infrastructure components available as Promises in the Kratix Marketplace.
Deploy Redis, AWS S3 buckets, cert-manager, and more within minutes.
SELF-SERVE VIA API, PORTAL, OR GITOPS
Get value from your platform by using the most appropriate user experience for the task at hand or the user's requirements.
Integrate services using APIs, deploy apps via a portal, and configure infrastructure using GitOps.
FREE ENGINEERS TO CREATE & SHARE
Enable multiple teams to co-create your platform using the popular inner source model of contribution.
Centalised platform engineering teams can source, test, and integrate services from across your organisation.
TAME THE FLEET: AUTOMATE WORKFLOWS
Encode and share policy, guardrails, and compliance requirements in Workflows.
Centralised platform teams can ensure policy is enforced globally, manage upgrades, and correct configuration drift as the underlying compute and cluster fleet scales.
TALK WITH AN EXPERT
Take your first step towards
completing the platform puzzle with Crossplane and Kratix
⚡️
Go Faster
Provide Promises for
“everything as a service”
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Decrease risk
Automate manual processes in reusable Workflows
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Increase efficiency
Manage your digital platform on day 1, day 2, and day 2000
