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Internal Developer Platform

What is an Internal Developer Platform?

An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a self-service toolset that provides both developers and the DevOps and other teams who support them with everything they need to build, deploy, and manage applications in a more streamlined and efficient way.

Unlike traditional infrastructure management, where operations teams handle all provisioning, orchestration, scaling, and maintenance of environments supporting the software development lifecycle (SDLC), internal developer platforms are built and maintained by platform engineering teams to accelerate developer productivity by automating manual tasks, promoting reusability, and eliminating complexity in the developer experience.

Platform engineering teams design IDPs to offer developers a centralized platform for accessing essential resources like cloud environments, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools. By integrating infrastructure as code

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Internal Developer Portal

Internal developer portals (IDPs) are valuable for their ability to accelerate software development pipelines by providing easy, on-demand access for developers to access the resources they need.

Today’s software development lifecycle (SDLC) is complex, supported by a vast array of platforms and resources.

In many software development organizations, developers need to navigate this world of tools, services, and documentation systems to access the APIs, infrastructure, or environments they need to build and ship products.

This complexity holds back developer productivity. In fact, research suggests that as much as 40% of developers’ time is spent on tasks that are not directly related to software development.

Many software development organizations leverage internal developer portals to minimize that number so that developers can ship new products and features as quickly as

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