--- title: Building a Kubernetes Platform — Think Big, Think in Planes description: Introduces a mental model for building Internal Developer Platforms by thinking in horizontal 'planes' rather than vertical layers. Explains five key planes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-kubernetes-platform-think-big-think-in-planes-zf7agtlpn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Kubernetes Platform — Think Big, Think in Planes | daily.dev og:description: Introduces a mental model for building Internal Developer Platforms by thinking in horizontal 'planes' rather than vertical layers. Explains five key planes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-kubernetes-platform-think-big-think-in-planes-zf7agtlpn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zf7AGtlpn.png og:image:alt: Building a Kubernetes Platform — Think Big, Think in Planes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Kubernetes Platform — Think Big, Think in Planes **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 24 min read · 24 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Introduces a mental model for building Internal Developer Platforms by thinking in horizontal 'planes' rather than vertical layers. Explains five key planes (Developer, Integration/Delivery, Monitoring/Logging, Security, and Resource) and provides deep dives into Control, Observability, and Service planes. Uses OpenChoreo as a case study to demonstrate how this architecture enables scalable, secure-by-default platforms that centralize control while distributing scale across multiple Kubernetes clusters. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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