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Announcing the WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo 1.0 GA

Open source flexibility. Enterprise platform reliability.

We are excited to announce the General Availability of the WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo 1.0, providing enterprise support, guidance, and production SLAs for organizations adopting OpenChoreo to build and operate internal developer platforms with confidence.

With this release, platform teams can run the same open source OpenChoreo project while getting the stability, security, and architectural guidance required for production-scale deployments across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, or sovereign environments.

This milestone comes at an important moment for the project. OpenChoreo has now been officially accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project, marking a major step forward in building an open, vendor-neutral, Kubernetes-native internal developer platform for the cloud native ecosystem.

Why choose the WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo

Many organizations are investing in internal developer platforms to improve developer velocity, enforce standards, and reduce operational complexity. However, building and maintaining a production-grade platform is difficult.

Teams often face challenges such as:

  • Managing Kubernetes complexity while keeping developer experience simple
  • Integrating and maintaining CI/CD, observability, security, and policy tools
  • Meeting compliance and governance requirements
  • Operating reliably across multiple clusters and clouds
  • Supporting AI-driven automation and future workloads

The WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo does not change the open source core. Instead, it provides the enterprise support and guidance needed to run OpenChoreo reliably in production environments.

It allows platform engineers to define golden paths on Kubernetes while developers work with high-level abstractions, reducing cognitive load without losing control.

OpenChoreo is now a CNCF Sandbox project

OpenChoreo is a Kubernetes-native internal developer platform designed for platform engineers and is now part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project.

OpenChoreo began as the next evolution of WSO2 Developer Platform (formerly known as Choreo), where we re-architected the platform to be fully Kubernetes-native, modular, and designed for platform engineers building internal developer platforms.

As the architecture matured, we made the decision to develop the platform in the open and donated the project to the CNCF to ensure vendor-neutral governance and long-term sustainability for the community.

Today, OpenChoreo is developed as an open source project under the CNCF, providing a foundation for organizations that want to build their own developer platform without starting from scratch.

OpenChoreo provides:

  • A scalable, modular architecture for your internal developer platform
  • Platform APIs and abstractions as building blocks
  • Programmable developer abstractions and golden paths covering the SDLC
  • Integrated, intelligent observability (logs, metrics, traces, and alerts)
  • Built-in agents (for site reliability engineering, cost control, and architecture)
  • AI-assisted/driven development and operations
  • Declarative platform and application state with Kubernetes as the system of record (native GitOps)
  • Multi-tenancy and access controls for enterprise teams
  • A module catalog to integrate external tools, or build your own

Unlike many platforms that hide Kubernetes behind proprietary layers, OpenChoreo keeps Kubernetes visible and operable, allowing SRE and platform teams to maintain full control.

By becoming a CNCF Sandbox project, OpenChoreo moves to an open governance model, ensuring:

  • Vendor-neutral development
  • Community-driven innovation
  • Long-term sustainability
  • Alignment with the cloud-native ecosystem

The WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo builds on this open foundation by providing enterprise support, guidance, and operational confidence, while customers continue to run the same upstream OpenChoreo project.

Enterprise readiness for production environments

Running an internal developer platform in production requires more than installing software. The WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo helps organizations operate OpenChoreo at scale with the reliability and guidance required for enterprise environments.

Reduced cognitive load for developers

Developers interact with high-level abstractions, while platform engineers retain full control over Kubernetes primitives.

Extensibility without lock-in

Integrate the tools you already use for CI/CD, observability, security, policy, and cloud services without being tied to a single vendor.

AI-native foundation

The platform includes built-in AI agents and secure AI interfaces that enable automation, autonomous operations, and integration with external AI systems.

Guaranteed continuity

24/7 support with enterprise SLAs ensures critical patches, fixes, and security updates are delivered without disruption.

Architectural guidance

Work directly with WSO2 platform architects to design high-availability, multi-cluster, and multi-cloud deployments.

Compliance and governance

Build platforms aligned with SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and internal enterprise controls.

Enterprise-ready modules and extensions

OpenChoreo is modular by design, allowing platform teams to choose the tools that fit their environment.

With the WSO2 Developer Platform, customers get support and guidance for commonly used modules, including:

  • CI/CD - Argo Workflows
  • Logs and Tracing - OpenSearch, Open Telemetry, FluentBit
  • Metrics - Prometheus
  • API Platform and API / AI Gateway - WSO2

These modules remain open and modular, but customers get help designing, integrating, and operating them in production.
The platform also introduces built-in AI agent support for platform operations.

Agents such as SRE automation agents can assist with:

  • Monitoring and diagnostics
  • Incident investigation
  • Operational workflows
  • Policy and compliance checks

Secure AI interfaces allow integration with external AI agents, copilots, and enterprise AI systems while maintaining strict access control.

Built for platform engineers. Trusted by enterprise teams.

The WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo is designed for organizations that want the benefits of open source without the risk of running unsupported infrastructure in production.

With this release, customers get:

  • 24/7 global support with aggressive SLAs
  • Guidance for production-grade OpenChoreo deployments
  • Proactive security and upgrade recommendations
  • Dedicated onboarding support
  • Direct access to OpenChoreo core engineers
  • Architectural guidance for multi-cluster and multi-cloud platforms

This allows teams to focus on delivering value to developers instead of maintaining platform plumbing.

A milestone for OpenChoreo

The 1.0 GA release is a major milestone for the OpenChoreo ecosystem.

It represents:

  • A stable open source core
  • Open governance under CNCF Sandbox
  • A modular, extensible architecture
  • A foundation for AI-native developer platforms
  • Enterprise-grade support available from WSO2

We believe the future of platform engineering will be built on open, Kubernetes-native foundations, with strong enterprise support where it matters.

Get started

You can start building your developer platform today with the WSO2 Developer Platform for OpenChoreo.

The journey to a production-grade internal developer platform starts here.