Technology Overview

The main offering from the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) team is to bring a container to life in a context. You build a container, and we orchestrate it in Kubernetes based on your configuration.

We strictly follow GitOps principles, meaning every change is stored as a commit.

Deployment & Scaling

Supports multiple deployment and scaling strategies
All updates respect GitOps (i.e., changes are triggered by commits to your team’s configuration repository in GitHub)
Continuous delivery for Kubernetes using Argo CD
Access to multiple environments (called namespaces in our terminology)

Container Lifecycle Support

Actions to assist in pushing containers to storage (e.g., ECR)
A system for auto-updating deployments based on:
- Tag matching
- Semantic Versioning (SemVer)

Access and Security

Access is integrated with your JPPOL work account
Services can be exposed:
- Publicly or internally
- As load-balanced HTTP services using nginx
Transparent secret storage via AWS Secrets Manager

Storage Solutions

We offer a range of storage options:

Mounted container storage backed by persistent EBS volumes
Object storage via S3
NoSQL support with DynamoDB
Scalable relational databases via PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora V2

Eventing & Workflows

Event-driven workflows via Argo Events
Workflow orchestration with Argo Workflows

Observability

Observability powered by Grafana with Prometheus for metrics and Loki for log aggregation
All console logs are automatically collected

Philosophy

We aim to support:

Simple workloads out-of-the-box
Complex setups with multiple independent services inside a cluster
Architecture advice during planning and migration
Continuous support after onboarding

Our goal is always to enable you to run everything as self-service.