Platforms white paper

Formerly known as the Platforms Working Group under CNCF TAG App Delivery, the Cloud Native Platform Engineering Community maintains and publishes this paper describing platforms for cloud-native computing to support project maintainers and cloud users in planning and designing such platforms.

v1 was completed in March 2023; improvements and iterations continue in the latest directory.

Currently, the edition in the latest directory is published to TAG App Delivery’s website at .

Modifying diagrams

To modify the platforms-def diagram, download the latest version and open it in https://draw.io/. When you’re done with edits, choose File > Export As > PNG… and be sure to click “Include a copy of my diagram” as shown in the following graphic. Then find the downloaded image and include it in a PR.

Please save and replace the XML version here as well for completeness. To do so, in draw.io again choose File > Export As > XML… Find the downloaded file and replace ./latest/assets/platforms-def.drawio.xml with it for your PR.

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