Cloud-Native Platforms Require Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Cloud-native platforms in hybrid cloud environments present management, scalability, performance, and automation challenges. But infrastructure platform engineering principles, key with a product-oriented management approach and defined responsibility, can help I&O leaders address these challenges.

In this report, Gartner addresses these challenges, outlines their key findings, and provides recommendations for I&O leaders.

Three critical success factors for leveraging infrastructure platform engineering to manage a cloud-native platform

• Adopt infrastructure platform engineering principles
• Establish a product-oriented approach
• Define the roles and responsibilities of the platform-engineering team for management of the entire life cycle of the cloud-native platform