Guides, release notes and stories from the OpenChoreo maintainers and the community on platform engineering, internal developer platforms and Kubernetes.
A webinar with Kelsey Hightower and OpenChoreo maintainers on why Backstage alone isn't enough, and how a control plane (like OpenChoreo) solves the messy middle problem by separating the developer experience layer from platform orchestration.
How much of the cloud should developers see? A guide to the OpenChoreo Crossplane integration, where developers set what the app needs and the data plane decides the rest.
Miraj Abeysekara · October 8, 2026 · 13 min read
Explore what's new in OpenChoreo v1.3: cost insights, DORA metrics, improvements to the local development experience, platform and audit logs, and more.
Binura Gunasekara · September 21, 2026 · 8 min read
OpenChoreo has been accepted into the CNCF Sandbox and ships 1.0, its first production-ready release of a complete developer platform for Kubernetes.
Sameera Jayasoma · March 23, 2026 · 8 min read
How much of the cloud should developers see? A guide to the OpenChoreo Crossplane integration, where developers set what the app needs and the data plane decides the rest.
How OpenChoreo’s SRE Agent uses MCP servers to investigate alerts, trace Workload dependencies, identify failures, and generate root cause analysis reports.
Is your IDP ready for AI agents? Learn how to build a secure, agent-ready platform backend with open source, straight from the OpenChoreo maintainers.
Agents are becoming both a workload your platform runs and an operator that runs your platform, and the same abstractions you built for developers are what make that safe for agents too.
OpenChoreo uses Fluent Bit to tag logs with platform metadata at collection, mapping them to components and projects instead of raw pods and namespaces.
A deep dive into why both projects exist, using OS threads vs. virtual threads as the lens: Agent Sandbox gives each agent its own pod, while Substrate runs many I/O-bound agents on a small pool of shared worker pods.
Explore what's new in OpenChoreo v1.3: cost insights, DORA metrics, improvements to the local development experience, platform and audit logs, and more.
How OpenChoreo's external CI integration lets Jenkins teams keep their pipelines, plugins, and shared libraries as-is while adding environment management, self-service promotion, multi-cluster deployment, and observability via a single API call at the end of the build.
How internal developer platforms can enforce zero-trust security by default on Kubernetes using identity-based Cilium network policies instead of IP-based rules.
Separating control, runtime, observability, and workflow responsibilities across distinct planes helps keep workloads within jurisdictional boundaries, reduce vendor dependence, and strengthen digital sovereignty under regulations such as the EU Data Act and NIS2.
A step-by-step walkthrough of installing OpenChoreo on a GKE Standard cluster and deploying a microservices demo — showing how the Control, Data, Workflow, and Observability planes work together and how the built-in SRE Agent helps debug a database outage.
OpenChoreo is heading to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 — come find us in Yokohama.
