Beyond Defaults – Extending and Customizing OpenChoreo for Your Enterprise

OpenChoreo is a complete, open source developer platform for Kubernetes. It ships with sensible defaults for GitOps, CI/CD, networking, and observability, and it works out of the box. But every enterprise has its own deployment standards, security and compliance requirements, promotion workflows, toolchain preferences, and infrastructure topology. In this talk, I'll walk through OpenChoreo's key extension surfaces and how to apply them. We'll look at ComponentTypes for defining deployment standards, Traits for composing cross-cutting concerns like security and compliance, DeploymentPipelines and Workflows for governed promotion, pluggable modules for integrating with your existing tools, plane topology for scaling across clusters and regions, and extending the Backstage-powered developer portal. You'll walk away with a practical understanding of how each extension point works and when to use it.