Platform Engineering has been a hot topic in the Cloud Native ecosystem for a while. But how can engineers build a scalable platform out of all the building blocks that the ecosystem already provides? And how can platforms be decoupled from running individual Kubernetes clusters for developers?

This talk builds upon kcp, a Kubernetes-like control plane for declarative APIs, and dives into the various patterns enabling a central platform API with OSS building blocks from the Cloud Native community. We will look at multicluster-runtime, kcp's api-syncagent, the existing operator ecosystem and how to pull them all together into a coherent developer experience that is more cost-efficient than "traditional" approaches.

To wrap things up, we will discuss how NeoNephos' Platform Mesh factors into transforming platform teams and their Kubernetes operator installations into fully fledged managed service providers for both internal and external users.