Platform Engineering¶

Platform engineering builds an internal platform so product teams can ship without becoming Kubernetes experts. Instead of every team solving deployment, observability and security on its own, a platform team provides paved roads that are self-service, secure by default and supported.

Core ideas¶

• Internal Developer Platform (IDP): the set of tools and workflows developers use to build, deploy and run software.
• Golden paths: opinionated, well-supported ways to do common things, such as creating a new service.
• Self-service: developers get what they need without opening a ticket.
• Platform as a product: the platform has users, a roadmap and feedback loops.

Typical building blocks¶

How to know it's working¶

Track adoption of the golden paths, deployment lead time, change failure rate and developer satisfaction. A platform nobody chooses to use is not succeeding, however well engineered.

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