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Platform engineering has emerged as the natural progression of DevOps—not a replacement as some may think, but rather more of a refinement. While DevOps broke down silos and encouraged shared responsibility, it often left teams fending for themselves across sprawling infrastructure stacks. Developers were promised autonomy, but were instead overwhelmed by the burden of managing CI/CD, security, observability, infrastructure provisioning, and more.

Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) are no longer just an experimental concept—they’re now a foundational component of modern software delivery. As engineering organizations look to reduce cognitive load, increase self-service, and streamline infrastructure workflows, IDPs have emerged as the most effective way to productize platform engineering.

Kubernetes has quickly made itself known as the de facto platform for today’s applications and the most common way to build an infrastructure platform for application developers. Kubernetes offers immense flexibility and power, but it can introduce its own unique set of operational challenges. If you find yourself spending more time chasing down cluster issues than helping your developers work hassle-free, this guide is for you.

I was lucky enough to serve on the v1.33 Release Team as Comms Shadow, and it was truly awe-inspiring to see the inner workings of the world’s biggest open-source project. There is a lot to cover around the structure, governance, processes, and maintenance of the Kubernetes project, but in this blog post, I want to focus on the exciting new features that v1.33 brings and what it means for all of us. Check out the official Kubernetes release blog for more details!