List of references

An currently uncurated list of references with respect to typical platform building components

CNCF

Here are capability domains to consider when building platforms for cloud-native computing:

Web portals for observing and provisioning products and capabilities
APIs (and CLIs) for automatically provisioning products and capabilities
“Golden path” templates and docs enabling optimal use of capabilities in products
Automation for building and testing services and products
Automation for delivering and verifying services and products
Development environments such as hosted IDEs and remote connection tools
Observability for services and products using instrumentation and dashboards, including observation of functionality, performance and costs
Infrastructure services including compute runtimes, programmable networks, and block and volume storage
Data services including databases, caches, and object stores
Messaging and event services including brokers, queues, and event fabrics
Identity and secret management services such as service and user identity and authorization, certificate and key issuance, and static secret storage
Security services including static analysis of code and artifacts, runtime analysis, and policy enforcement
Artifact storage including storage of container image and language-specific packages, custom binaries and libraries, and source code

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) should be built to cover 5 Core Components:

Core Component	Short Description
Application Configuration Management	Manage application configuration in a dynamic, scalable and reliable way.
Infrastructure Orchestration	Orchestrate your infrastructure in a dynamic and intelligent way depending on the context.
Environment Management	Enable developers to create new and fully provisioned environments whenever needed.
Deployment Management	Implement a delivery pipeline for Continuous Delivery or even Continuous Deployment (CD).
Role-Based Access Control	Manage who can do what in a scalable way.