Building a platform engineering API layer with kcp

Without a universal API layer, platform engineering efforts are in for a rude awakening. No service provider wants to find out that they need to port their services to tens of different developer platforms. Similarly, if an organization is buying or building an internal developer platform, it wants compatibility with providers as well as the flexibility to switch implementations without redoing the whole platform. To stop this from happening, the platform engineering community needs to come together and decide on a well-defined multi-tenant API layer that providers and consumers can rely on.

KCP serves as such a universal API layer and facilitates a SaaS-like interaction between internal service providers and consumers, turning internal developer platforms into a service-oriented marketplace, all using familiar concepts and tools that Kubernetes developers already know and love.