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| title | weight | description |
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| Orchestrators | 4 | Next level platforming is orchestrating platforms |
Summary
When defining and setting up platforms next two intrinsic problems arise:
- it is not declarative and automated
- it is not or least not easily changable
Thus the technology of 'Platform Orchestrating' emerged recently, in late 2023.
Platform reference architecture
An interesting difference between the CNCF white paper building blocks and them from Internaldeveloperplatforms is the part orchestrators.
This is something extremely new since late 2023 - the rise of the automation of platform engineering!
It was Humanitec creating a definition of platform architecture, as they needed to defien what they are building with their 'orchestrator':
Declarative Platform Orchestration
Based on the refence architecture you next can build - or let's say 'orchestrate' - different platform implementations, based on declarative definitions of the platform design.
https://humanitec.com/reference-architectures
Hint: There is a slides tool provided by McKinsey to set up your own platform deign based on the reference architecture
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What comes next?
Next we'll see how we are going to do platform orchestration with CNOE! {{% /pageinfo %}}
Addendum
Building blocks from Humanitecs 'state-of-platform-engineering-report-volume-2'
You remember the capability mappings from the time before orchestration? Here we have a similar setup based on Humanitecs platform engineering status ewhite paper:
