DevOps · Flashcard
What is the relationship between an internal developer platform and a developer portal?
Why this is the answer
The platform is the set of capabilities and the automation behind them; a portal is a discovery and self-service surface on top, and a healthy platform is equally usable from a CLI, an API or a pipeline, because forcing every interaction through a web page is itself friction. The portal does not run the capabilities, does not substitute for them, and is not a billing system.
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