Federated Management

A Self-Service Workflow

Goal

You will recognize a practical workflow for centralized platform ownership and team self-service.

Platform team

The platform team defines and maintains shared resources, such as an AI Gateway, model providers, and organization-wide defaults. It applies those resources before dependent teams run their configurations.

Peer team

Each peer team keeps its owned resources in a separate directory. It can preview changes against the existing shared platform:

kongctl plan \
  -f docs/examples/declarative/ai-gateway/federated/external-peer-team

After reviewing the plan, the team can apply only that configuration:

kongctl apply \
  -f docs/examples/declarative/ai-gateway/federated/external-peer-team

This workflow gives the peer team a direct path to delivery while the platform team continues to own shared infrastructure and organizational guardrails. Repository review, Konnect permissions, and automated plan checks can enforce the boundary around that self-service path.