What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?
An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is built and maintained by a platform engineering team to provide self-service access to developers and abstract away underlying infrastructure. The goal of an IDP is to accelerate developer productivity and reduce operational complexity.
One key aspect of a developer platform is data management for modern applications. Platform engineering teams need to ensure that their IDP is equipped to handle the unique challenges posed by containerized environments, like storage management, data protection, and complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Platform teams must build standardized experiences and optimized workflows as more developers deploy critical applications in containers.
Customer Challenges with Internal Developer Platforms
Cumbersome Day 2 Storage Operations
Developers can get bogged down by manual tasks for day 2 operations and dependencies on other teams that lead to bloated wait times for tasks like storage and database provisioning.
Application Downtime and Data Loss
Whether applications are mission-critical or tier 2 and 3, platform teams need to be able to solve for data resilience via data protection and disaster recovery.
Complex Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
Today’s hybrid and multi-cloud world requires platform teams to manage the complexities of every environment their developers need.
Container Data Management for Developer Platforms
Automate Storage Processes
For platform engineering teams driving application modernization at their organizations, Portworx simplifies the process of building out a container data management solution, accelerating time-to-revenue at enterprise scale.
- Remove the need for ticket-based services, accelerating application deployment with self-service access
- Maximize application performance for critical applications
- Reduce operational overhead for platform and developer teams with automation for Day 2 storage operations like capacity management
Protect Mission-Critical Applications
Architect data resiliency for mission-critical workloads with built-for-Kubernetes data protection and disaster recovery so your data is available when you need it.
- Protect Kubernetes applications with application-aware and container-granular backup and restore
- Provide enterprise-grade data protection with features like ransomware protection, RBAC, and encryption
- Minimize downtime and data loss with up to zero RPO disaster recovery
Unify Storage and Databases
Portworx delivers a consistent storage experience on a unified platform no matter where your data is located—on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments.
- Provide consistent management of Kubernetes clusters by abstracting away the complexity of different infrastructure
- Enable centralized management of Day 2 operations, security, and application performance across clusters, clouds, and regions
- Deliver on-demand and self-service databases with a database-as-a-service solution that provides a single pane of glass for database services
It’s essential that our entire business runs on the same scalable infrastructure so we can measure the success of every product and service using consistent metrics. As a cloud-agnostic Kubernetes storage solution that integrates with every major platform we use, Portworx is perfect for the job.
Suresh Mothikuru Vice President of Technology, Platform Engineering, and Reliability Engineering Johnson Controls
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