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Building a Developer Portal

One of the more popular concepts in recent years of DevOps and automation is to provide an Internal Developer Portal (IDP). The purpose of this portal is to provide a single point of service for your developers and infrastructure team to be able to access architectural services without having to send an email to “your guy” in IT. This is often the promise of cloud-based services, though it requires considerable custom development to achieve. It also provides the foundation for creating the guardrails needed to develop a manageable architecture.

This chapter is going to combine the theory we walked through in Chapter 18, Provisioning a Multitenant Platform, along with most of the concepts and technologies we’ve ...

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