Architecture, Perf. & Sec.Conference50min
Platform Engineering in action: A common front door for dev and infra
This session demonstrates how Backstage can serve as a unified front-end for automation, enabling developers to self-service application management through standardized Ansible workflows while maintaining governance. Running on Kubernetes with Quarkus templates, it bridges development and infrastructure teams, fostering collaboration and streamlined lifecycle management.
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Maarten VandeperreRed Hat
Vincent SeynhaeveRed Hat
With the advent of infrastructure as code and automation, infrastructure teams are increasingly becoming developers in their own domain. Concepts like GitOps, sprints, blue-green or canary deployments, once exclusive to application development, now also shape the infrastructure landscape. Yet despite these shared practices, collaboration between application and infrastructure teams often remains limited, and silos persist.
By turning Backstage into a front-end for automation, organizations can offer developers self-service access to manage application lifecycles and trigger standardized Ansible automation, while infrastructure teams maintain governance, compliance, and visibility.
The session showcases a real setup running on Kubernetes, exposing Quarkus software templates and Ansible playbooks as self-service actions. Attendees will walk away with examples to build their own unified entry point that empowers both dev and infra teams to collaborate efficiently under the same umbrella.
By turning Backstage into a front-end for automation, organizations can offer developers self-service access to manage application lifecycles and trigger standardized Ansible automation, while infrastructure teams maintain governance, compliance, and visibility.
The session showcases a real setup running on Kubernetes, exposing Quarkus software templates and Ansible playbooks as self-service actions. Attendees will walk away with examples to build their own unified entry point that empowers both dev and infra teams to collaborate efficiently under the same umbrella.
Maarten Vandeperre
Maarten Vandeperre is a Specialized Solutions Architect at Red Hat focused on platform engineering, AI enablement, and sovereign platform design. He helps organizations build modern application platforms on OpenShift that reduce cognitive load, enable developer autonomy, and keep enterprises in control of their data, technology, and AI strategy.
With a strong background in software development and clean architecture, Maarten bridges application design and infrastructure, mapping architectural principles to scalable, secure, and compliant platforms. His work spans sovereign AI, internal developer platforms, model serving, and cloud-native integration patterns. He regularly speaks at developer and AI conferences across Europe, sharing practical insights on platform engineering, AI, and digital sovereignty.
With a strong background in software development and clean architecture, Maarten bridges application design and infrastructure, mapping architectural principles to scalable, secure, and compliant platforms. His work spans sovereign AI, internal developer platforms, model serving, and cloud-native integration patterns. He regularly speaks at developer and AI conferences across Europe, sharing practical insights on platform engineering, AI, and digital sovereignty.
Vincent Seynhaeve
With more than 15 years of experience in open-source & Linux, I’ve worked with a wide range of tools to standardize IT infrastructure and enable team collaboration.
As a key enabler, automation has helped me to standardize processes, enhance team collaboration and maintain stable infrastructures over time.
As a key enabler, automation has helped me to standardize processes, enhance team collaboration and maintain stable infrastructures over time.