OpenChoreo’s 2026 Year in Review: Built Together, in the Open
In 2026, OpenChoreo grew into a community of more than a thousand contributors. A thank-you to everyone who made it possible, and a look at where we're heading next.
OpenChoreo Blog
Guides, release notes and stories from the OpenChoreo maintainers and the community on platform engineering, internal developer platforms and Kubernetes.
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What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?
Learn what an internal developer platform is and how to design one.
Binura Gunasekara · October 20, 2026 · 16 min read
Announcing OpenChoreo v1.3
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 Joins the CNCF Sandbox and Ships 1.0
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
Latest posts
How to Build an Internal Developer Platform on Azure with OpenChoreo
How to turn AKS and Azure's managed services into a self-service developer platform with OpenChoreo, from one service's path to production to a hub-and-spoke topology.
OpenTelemetry-powered distributed tracing and Kubernetes events in OpenChoreo
OpenChoreo uses the OpenTelemetry Collector to power distributed tracing and to persist Kubernetes events with added metadata, keeping them available after the API server discards them.
OpenChoreo at KubeCon NA 2026
Where to meet the OpenChoreo maintainers at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026 in Salt Lake City, our fourth KubeCon as a CNCF Sandbox project.
What is an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)?
Learn what an internal developer platform is and how to design one.
Why Kubernetes Alone Isn't an Internal Developer Platform
Kubernetes orchestrates infrastructure but stops short of the self-service experience developers need. A five-layer enterprise model pairs SUSE Rancher Prime for cluster and infrastructure management with OpenChoreo for the application-level abstractions, translating developer intent into Kubernetes resources across managed clusters.
Provisioning Resources in OpenChoreo with Crossplane
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.
Inside OpenChoreo’s SRE Agent
How OpenChoreo’s SRE Agent uses MCP servers to investigate alerts, trace Workload dependencies, identify failures, and generate root cause analysis reports.
How to Build an Agent-Ready IDP with Open Source Tools
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.
Platform for Agents, Agents for Platform
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.
Why Raw Kubernetes Logs Aren't Enough for Internal Developer Platforms
OpenChoreo uses Fluent Bit to tag logs with platform metadata at collection, mapping them to components and projects instead of raw pods and namespaces.
Agent Sandbox vs. Agent Substrate
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.
Announcing OpenChoreo v1.3
Explore what's new in OpenChoreo v1.3: cost insights, DORA metrics, improvements to the local development experience, platform and audit logs, and more.