With the widespread adoption of platform engineering, we're seeing a new generation of tools that go beyond the traditional platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model and offer published contracts between developers and platform teams. The contract might involve provisioning cloud environments, databases, monitoring, authentication and more in a different environment. These tools enforce organizational standards while granting developers self-service access to variations through configuration. Examples of these platform orchestration systems include and . We'd recommend platform teams assess these tools as an alternative to pulling together your own unique collection of scripts, native tools and infrastructure as code. We've also noted a similarity to the concepts in the Open Application Model (OAM) and its reference orchestrator , although OAM claims to be more application-centric than workload-centric.
