Internal developer platforms

KubeVirt offers a bridge between virtual machines and containerized environments. As an open-source project, its standout feature is the ability to run VMs and containers side by side. But while the concept is promising, several caveats remain for organizations that need to support critical at-scale VM workloads. The CNCF project also reflects how containers are not going to replace VMs, while the reverse may be true in the long term for many use cases.

Al has blindsided cloud native infrastructure management, rendering established platform engineering woefully inadequate. Original platform engineering often suffers from a developer-only focus, but a platform that serves only one persona in a multi-persona organization ultimately delivers a shrinking fraction of its potential enterprise value. Autonomous agents are already beginning to write, review, test, and deploy code or fixes with or without human intervention. This shifts the primary organizational bottleneck from writing code to delivering it safely and quickly. The gap requires a new model: Platform Engineering 2.0.