Developer Portals and Golden Paths: Standardizing DevOps with Internal Platforms
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9416.IJAIBDCMS-V5I3P112Keywords:
DevOps, Developer Portals, Golden Paths, Internal Developer Platforms, Platform Engineering, CI/CD, Standardization, Developer Experience, Self-Service, Automation, Scalability, Software DeliveryAbstract
As businesses expand, keeping consistency, efficiency, and speed in DevOps processes gets quite challenging. Separated teams, unsuitable settings, and varied technology along with linked procedures can create bottlenecks, cognitive stress for developers. Given this complexity, internal developer portals centralized hubs combining documentation, templates, APIs, services, and self-service capabilities have grown rather important. These solutions not only minimize context-switching and ease onboarding but also offer the structure for applying carefully chosen, prescriptive processes guiding teams towards best practices in software development, deployment, and operation. Golden paths ensure consistency with company goals and encourage developers by finding balance between autonomy and homogeneity. Commercial wise, these internal systems and channels offer faster development cycles, improved software quality, reinforced security protocols, and more reliable delivery schedules. Even if they encourage innovation, they support CI/CD pipelines to be optimized, enforce policy-as-code, increase observability and compliance even. The key lesson is that by investing in internal development platforms and formalizing golden paths, businesses can effectively extend DevOps and so enable teams to produce with increased speed and assurance. This strategy promotes community accountability and ongoing development as well as production qualities necessary for success in the future society based on software
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