Compute Platform

This is the platform runtime. It can also be thought of as a deployment target for the applications that make up the platform. It offers some formalized patterns for interoperability between platform capabilities.

Can offer similar discoverability and uniformity as that of service oriented architectures (SOA) Can also offer a common medium for data exchange between services like an enterprise service bus or (ESB)

Frequently Kubernetes is the compute and also the substrate for the foundation of platform capabilities.