Engagement models

Choose how far the platform goes

Start with a secure foundation, add governed self-service, or have us run the whole platform against agreed SLOs. Each step builds on the last.

Project

Platform Foundation

A secure landing zone and managed Kubernetes baseline

  • Cloud landing zone and network baseline
  • Managed Kubernetes cluster setup
  • Infrastructure-as-code foundations
  • Baseline observability and security controls
Best for

Organisations establishing a standardised, secure platform foundation.

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Continuous

Managed Platform Operations

We run, upgrade and govern the platform against agreed SLOs

  • Everything in Developer Portal (IDP)
  • Cluster upgrades, scaling and patching
  • SLO monitoring and on-call response
  • Cost, security and compliance governance
Best for

Organisations that want the platform operated reliably without a large internal team.

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Developer portal

What your developers get on the instX platform

Your platform team as a service - supporting your developers and DevOps through the instX platform.

  • A self-service portal on the instX platform where developers find services, create new ones and ship without raising tickets.

    Service catalogScaffoldingService ownership
How we engage

From assessment to enablement

  1. 01

    Assessment

    Evaluate infrastructure, pain points, and requirements.

    • Infrastructure audit
    • Pain point analysis
    • Requirements gathering
  2. 02

    Design

    Architect platform solutions aligned with business and technology.

    • Architecture design
    • Technology selection
    • Security planning
  3. 03

    Implementation

    Build components with automation, security, and observability.

    • IaC development
    • CI/CD setup
    • Monitoring integration
  4. 04

    Enablement

    Train teams and establish platform adoption practices.

    • Team training
    • Documentation
    • Ongoing support
FAQ

Platform engineering questions

  • An IDP is a self-service layer that gives developers a curated way to provision environments, deploy services and access tooling. It packages infrastructure, pipelines and policies behind a portal so teams move fast without raising tickets for every step.

  • They are supported, opinionated routes to build and run software the easy way - templates and workflows that already include security, observability and compliance. Teams can step off the path when needed, but the default path is the safe, fast one.

  • A single place for developers to discover services, create new ones from supported templates, and reach environments, pipelines and documentation - so they ship without raising a ticket for every step. We tailor the portal to your ecosystem rather than mandating one tool.

  • With Managed Platform Operations we run your clusters end to end - upgrades, scaling, patching, observability and on-call response against agreed SLOs - so you get reliable Kubernetes without growing a large platform team.

  • Guardrails and policy-as-code are embedded in the golden paths, so the easy path is also the compliant one. Developers get freedom within safe boundaries, and platform owners keep visibility, cost control and security posture across the estate.

Need a platform team without the hiring?

We embed as your platform team and run the instX platform, golden paths and operations, so your developers and DevOps keep shipping.

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