Building a service catalog for Kubernetes

In this section, we will develop a service catalog for Kubernetes as a lightweight IDP. This platform will streamline providing necessary infrastructure through Kubernetes deployments. The lightweight IDP is designed to scale Kubernetes cluster flexibly via GitOps as projects grow, ensuring rapid time to market. Additionally, it will facilitate the extension of services such as security, FinOps, and service-mesh as needed, while ensuring that clusters are up to date and simplifying their management, regardless of the number of clusters involved. This approach underscores the synergy between Kubernetes, GitOps, and scalable infrastructure management.

Before proceeding, it’s important to establish your labeling or tagging strategy, especially if you prefer not to deploy the entire stack to every cluster. Additionally, providing the opportunity to create and expand a service catalog can be beneficial. In such cases, it might be advisable...