Building Your First Developer Platform or Modernising a Legacy One — We Design, Build, and Run It.
KubeNiche designs and operates K8s-native Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) — Backstage, Port, Crossplane, Flux, and ArgoCD — for SMBs starting from scratch and for teams replacing fragile, hand-rolled CI/CD pipelines. Your engineers ship on golden paths with self-service infrastructure and production guardrails, without a dedicated platform team headcount.
Design My Developer PlatformEvery Developer Reinvents Infrastructure When There's No Platform — Whether You're Day One or Year Five
SMBs starting their cloud-native journey face a choice: let every developer manage their own infrastructure (slow, inconsistent, insecure) or build a platform team (expensive, hard to hire). Teams already running Kubernetes face a different version of the same problem: hand-rolled CI/CD pipelines that only one person understands, no self-service environment provisioning, and developers waiting days for a new namespace or deployment pipeline. Platform engineering solves both. KubeNiche embeds as your managed platform engineering partner — we build the Internal Developer Platform, define the golden paths, and operate the platform so your developers move fast without breaking things. No platform team headcount required.
Platforms We Operate
IDP & GitOps Tools — Hands-On Experience
We've deployed and operated these tools in production K8s environments — not just evaluated them.
What's Included
Core Capabilities
Greenfield IDP Design — Build the Right Platform from Day One
For SMBs starting their cloud-native journey, we design the Internal Developer Platform architecture before the first service is deployed — software catalog structure, golden path templates, self-service environment provisioning, and GitOps pipeline standards. You get a platform that scales with your engineering team, not one you'll need to rebuild in 18 months. We assess your team size, workflow patterns, and K8s maturity to recommend the right IDP stack: Backstage for larger orgs, Port for fast-moving SMBs, or a lightweight Crossplane-based self-service layer.
Legacy CI/CD Modernisation — Replace Fragile Pipelines
For teams running hand-rolled Jenkins pipelines, shell-script deployments, or ad-hoc kubectl apply workflows, we migrate to ArgoCD-first GitOps with structured Helm chart libraries and Kustomize overlays. Every deployment becomes declarative, auditable, and reversible. We've migrated complex multi-environment pipelines to GitOps without disrupting production delivery cadence.
Golden Path Templates & Service Scaffolding
Define and maintain golden path templates for new microservices, data pipelines, and AI workloads — pre-wired with observability (OpenTelemetry), security policies (Kyverno/OPA), resource quotas, network policies, and CI/CD. Developers get a production-ready scaffold in minutes via Backstage scaffolder or Port self-service actions. For greenfield teams, this means every new service starts with the same high baseline — no snowflakes.
Self-Service Infrastructure with Crossplane & GitOps
Provision cloud resources — databases, queues, storage buckets, networking, and even entire K8s clusters — via Kubernetes CRDs and GitOps. Developers request infrastructure through the same K8s API they already know. No Terraform expertise required, no tickets to the ops team, no waiting. For SMBs starting out, this prevents the ticket-driven infrastructure bottleneck from ever forming.
Developer Portal Operations — Backstage & Port
Ongoing management of your Backstage or Port instance — plugin updates, catalog ingestion pipelines, TechDocs publishing, scorecard maintenance, and new template development. The portal stays current as your org evolves. For teams adopting Backstage for the first time, we handle the notoriously complex initial setup and plugin configuration so your developers see value in week one, not month three.
Managed SRE for the Platform Layer
24/7 operations for your IDP, GitOps controllers, CI/CD infrastructure, and Crossplane providers — as a managed service. We own the on-call rotation for platform incidents, maintain runbooks, and respond with a sub-15-minute SLA. Your developers never lose their deployment pipeline. For early-stage SMBs, this means your platform is enterprise-grade from day one without the headcount to match.
No platform team yet, or a platform that needs modernising — we handle both
Book a no-obligation platform engineering assessment. Whether you're starting from scratch or replacing a fragile CI/CD estate, we'll map your current bottlenecks, identify the highest-leverage IDP investments, and scope a managed engagement.
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