# Understanding Konfig's Opinionation

DevFeed: [Understanding Konfig's Opinionation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/understanding-konfig-s-opinionation-23006.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bravenewgeek.com/understanding-konfigs-opinionation/>)

Published: 2024-06-11T19:59:57Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Brave New Geek](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/brave-new-geek.md>)

Topics: [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-cloud.md>), [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitlab.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [deployment-driven-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment-driven-development.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [gcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcp.md>), [gitlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitlab.md>), [governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/governance.md>), [idp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/idp.md>), [internal-developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-platform.md>), [konfigurate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/konfigurate.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [real-kinetic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-kinetic.md>), [self-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-service.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article explains how Konfig, an opinionated enterprise cloud platform, aims to reduce cloud-platform ownership costs and shorten software delivery timelines. It describes built-in security, governance, organizational standards, developer self-service, and Deployment-Driven Development, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform and GitLab.

## Source excerpt

In my last post, I talked about the benefits of an opinionated platform. An opinionated platform allows your engineers to focus on things that matter to your business, such as shipping and improving customer-facing products and services. This is in contrast to engineers spending substantial time on non-differentiating work like platform infrastructure. Rather than infrastructure architecture, developers can focus more on the product architecture. Konfig is an opinionated platform which provides two key value drivers: 1) reducing the investment and total cost of ownership needed to have an enterprise cloud platform and 2) minimizing the time to deliver new software products.