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As developers, we all love a bit of magic, especially when it makes our jobs easier. What if spinning up an AI chatbot, fine-tuned model, or RAG-based API was as easy as summoning a spell?

In this session, we’ll show how Internal Developer Portals (like Backstage) can become your team’s Room of Requirement. With pre-built software templates, function-calling support, and multimodel deployment options, platform engineers can give developers everything they need: on demand, securely, and at scale.

Expect a live demo, practical takeaways using Kubernetes and Tekton, and appearances from Snape (security), McGonagall (governance), and Dobby (developer self-service).

Whether you’re building an AI platform or enabling teams to do so safely, this talk will help you turn your developer experience into something truly magical.

Devoxx

A conference talk transcript covering platform engineering principles and how internal developer portals (built on Backstage/Red Hat Developer Hub) can reduce cognitive load for developers. Key topics include: using GitOps with Argo CD for configuration management, scaffolding templates ("spells") to deploy self-hosted LLM chatbots on Kubernetes, trusted software supply chains with image signing and SBOMs, digital sovereignty for AI workloads, and breaking organizational silos through a platform team acting as a cross-functional glue layer. A live demo shows deploying a RAG chatbot using a Granite model via a Backstage template on OpenShift.

The Room of Requirements for Developers: Scaling AI Magic with Internal Portals - Maarten Vandeperre