Internal marketplace

As explained in Platform Engineering on Kubernetes

An internal marketplace is a platform interface where specialized teams publish reusable capabilities for consumption by other teams in the organization.

An internal marketplace lets specialist teams publish capabilities as services for other teams, combining reusable platform offerings with consistency across organizational needs. section 6.4

A practical internal marketplace should:

• Lower the cost of building bespoke internal offerings while accommodating business-process and compliance requirements. section 6.4
• Use platform-building frameworks such as Kratix, potentially alongside Crossplane compositions, to keep offerings consistent. section 6.4
• Remain resilient and avoid becoming a critical dependency: teams need a way around the platform when its control plane is unavailable. section 6.4

Figure 6.19 Platform responsibilities and boundaries

Use the platform responsibilities and boundaries figure to inspect how marketplace capabilities fit within the wider platform. section 6.4

How Platform Engineering on Kubernetes covers it

How deep it goes

Connects marketplace design to frameworks, consistency, release processes, configuration management, and resilience, but stops short of implementation details.

Examples

Uses Kratix and Crossplane compositions as examples of consistent capability delivery through platform offerings.

What it assumes

Assumes familiarity with platform engineering and Kubernetes-oriented tooling while framing marketplace design around internal team workflows.

What you can do after

Evaluate marketplace resilience, specialist ownership, capability consistency, and escape routes for teams using the platform.

How it connects

Connects internal marketplaces with platform engineering, Kratix, Crossplane compositions, Kubernetes, and compliance requirements.

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Related concepts

• Kratixproduced by · Kratix is a framework for defining and implementing internal platform experiences that provide capabilities as a service to other teams.

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