A Review of Some Key Players in the Space

Infrastructure Development Platforms (IDPs) or Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are designed to help organizations efficiently build, manage, and deploy infrastructure in a scalable and automated way. Here are some IDP tools and their features:

1. Ambassador (vendor: Datawire, now a part of Ambassador Labs)

• Used by companies such as Microsoft, Ticketmaster, and ClassPass
• Provides a unified control plane for managing and securing microservices-based applications
• Offers features such as traffic management, security, observability, and self-service API documentation
• Open-source, with a paid enterprise version with additional features and support

2. configure8 (vendor: configure8)

• Offers a standardized way of implementing APIs and helps with API documentation, client SDKs, and related features
• Provides an API-first approach to designing and implementing APIs, which allows developers to create consistent and compliant APIs
• Offers automatic documentation generation, versioning and release management, and client SDK generation
• Both free and paid plans available with different feature sets

3. Crossplane (vendor: Upbound)

• Used by companies such as Accenture, VMWare, and Samsung
• A framework for building cloud-native control planes that allows developers to manage infrastructure and services as code
• Provides a way to easily define and manage cloud resources using a declarative approach
• Open-source with free features

4. Cycloid (vendor: Cycloid)

• Used by companies such as Orange, Auchan, and Veolia
• Helps developers to manage their infrastructure and applications in a standardized way
• Provides a way to easily create and manage infrastructure templates for quick deployment and management of cloud resources
• Offers role-based access control, automatic configuration drift detection, and automated compliance checks
• Open-source, with a paid enterprise edition with additional features and support

5. Humanitec (vendor: Humanitec)

• Used by companies such as Trivago, Moia, and Quandoo
• A self-service platform orchestrator that provides a no-code approach to deploying and managing applications in the cloud
• Provides features such as automated testing and deployment, auto-scaling, and automatic recovery from failures
• Closed source with a free trial, followed by a paid platform with no free features

6. Kratix (vendor: kratix.io)

• Offers a framework for building platforms-as-a-service that allows developers to easily deploy and manage applications in the cloud
• Provides a way to easily create and manage application templates for quick deployment and management of cloud resources
• Offers automatic scaling, monitoring, and automatic recovery from failures
• Open-source with free features

7. Port (vendor: OneGraph)

• Used by companies such as 99designs, Shopify, and NASA
• Provides a simple way to manage APIs and microservices-based applications with a drag-and-drop interface
• Offers automatic documentation generation, versioning and release management, and testing and debugging tools
• Both free and paid plans available with different feature sets

8. Upbound (vendor: Upbound)

• Used by companies such as Nordstrom, Red Hat, and VMWare
• Provides a unified API for managing cloud resources, which allows developers to easily automate the deployment and management of their applications
• Offers automatic scaling, automated testing and deployment, and automatic recovery from failures
• Open-source with free features, with a paid enterprise version with additional features and support

9. Backstage (vendor: Spotify)

• Used by companies such as Zalando, World Bank, and Yelp
• A platform for building developer portals that provides a unified view of all the services, infrastructure, and tools used by an organization’s development teams
• Offers self-service catalogs, automated documentation generation, and integrations with other tools and services
• Open-source; offers all its features for free, although additional paid services are available through its community partners.

10. Qovery (vendor: Qovery)

• Companies that have used it: Criteo, Tiller, Devoteam
• Features: Developer-first platform, no-code approach to deploying and managing applications in the cloud
• Offers a free plan with basic features, as well as paid plans with more advanced features.
• Open-source

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