openchoreo/openchoreo

OpenChoreo is a developer platform for Kubernetes that lets developers and AI agents build, deploy, and operate apps, resources, and agentic workloads. It provides development and platform abstractions, a Backstage-powered developer portal, CI/CD, GitOps, and observability.

Kubernetes gives you powerful primitives like Namespaces, Deployments, CronJobs, Services, and NetworkPolicies, but they're too low-level for most developers. Platform engineers end up building the actual platform from scratch: defining higher-level abstractions, wiring together tools for delivery, security and observability, and maintaining all of it as an in-house product.

That means stitching together a developer portal, CI pipelines, GitOps workflows, an observability stack, and access controls and then owning the glue between them indefinitely. The result is a fragile, bespoke system that's expensive to maintain and hard to evolve.

Developers and platform engineers need different things from the same platform. Developers want a simple, self-service experience. Platform engineers want control over what's running underneath. Most DIY platforms end up optimizing for one side at the expense of the other.