"Pinterest has introduced PinConsole, a unified internal developer platform(IDP) to centralize engineering workflows into a single interface. PinConsole was built to address the fragmented developer experience caused by multiple disconnected deployment, monitoring, and service management tools. By providing a consistent abstraction layer, PinConsole enables engineers to focus on business logic instead of navigating infrastructure complexity. PinConsole integrates common developer workflows such as continuous deployment pipelines, monitoring dashboards, alerting, and ownership metadata."
"Engineers can use the console to manage releases, access logs and metrics, and investigate incidents without switching between separate tools. By providing a shared abstraction layer, Pinterest states that this helped to standardize engineering practices across teams and simplify the developer experience. PinConsole is designed with an IDP model in mind, drawing inspiration from Backstage, Kubernetes, and gRPC. By providing a consistent interface and standard workflows, PinConsole promotes reuse and helps make engineering practices more uniform across different teams."
"PinConsole unified developer platform(Source: Pinterest Engineering Blog) To support this unified platform, Pinterest also built an entity data model that syncs every 60 minutes with its LDAP directory via Backstage's ldapOrg provider. This ensures user and group information is always current, enabling accurate ownership tracking, team-based views, and fine-grained access control across the platform. Under the hood, PinConsole uses PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS for both production and staging. Pinconsole interface is customized with Pinterest's Gestalt design system instead of Backstage's default components."
PinConsole centralizes engineering workflows into a single internal developer platform, consolidating deployment, monitoring, service management, and incident investigation. The platform provides a consistent abstraction layer so engineers can focus on business logic rather than infrastructure details. Common workflows such as continuous deployment pipelines, monitoring dashboards, alerting, and ownership metadata are integrated into the console. An entity data model synchronizes with the LDAP directory every 60 minutes via Backstage's ldapOrg provider to maintain current user and group information for ownership tracking and fine-grained access control. The implementation uses PostgreSQL on AWS RDS for production and staging and a customized Gestalt interface. A PinCompute plugin offers Kubernetes workload management.
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