📑 Table of Contents
🏢 Project Overview
🎉 Acknowledgements
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✍️ Author
Started by Kevin Evans as a way to document his journey in Platform Engineering, this repository has evolved into a centralized hub for platform engineering teams. It provides resources, best practices, and automation tools, including IaC templates, blueprints, and operational guides to help build scalable, secure, and efficient platforms for cloud-native environments and DevOps workflows.
Fun fact: The idea for this repo came while Kevin was watching Big Trouble in Little China—because, as Jack Burton would say, “It’s all in the reflexes.”
📈 Project Evolution
What began as a personal learning journey has evolved into a structured learning resource for Platform Engineering principles, processes, and tooling. We encourage community contributions, feedback, and discussions to further enrich this repository.
🚀 Focus Areas
- Platform Engineering: Continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and more.
- DevSecOps: Integrating security practices into the DevOps pipeline.
- Community Sessions: Interactive sessions and discussions to foster learning and collaboration.
🛠️ Tools and Technologies
This project is not vendor-sponsored and utilizes free, community, and open-source software.
📚 Platform Engineering Knowledge Base
🌐 What is Platform Engineering?
Platform Engineering builds on DevOps principles to enhance security, compliance, cost efficiency, and time-to-value by improving developer experiences and enabling self-service within a secure, governed framework.
It’s both a mindset shift and a set of tools and systems designed to reduce friction in development. Well-designed platforms eliminate toil by streamlining developer workflows and simplifying operations. These platforms include tools that:
- Empower developers with self-service options (e.g., starter kits, IDE plugins)
- Automate common tasks
- Encapsulate best practices into reusable components
- Provide early feedback on issues like security risks
- Manage infrastructure and tools to simplify operations
This approach enables development teams to focus on building and delivering value efficiently.
🚀 Why Platform Engineering?
In today’s fast-paced tech environment, organizations need to innovate quickly while maintaining high standards of reliability and security. Platform Engineering addresses these needs by:
- 🚀 Accelerating Development: Providing developers with easy access to the tools and environments they need, reducing the time spent on setup and configuration.
- 🔒 Enhancing Security: Implementing consistent security practices across the platform, ensuring compliance and protecting sensitive data.
- 📈 Improving Reliability: Standardizing infrastructure and processes to reduce errors and increase system stability.
- 💡 Fostering Innovation: Enabling teams to experiment and iterate rapidly by providing a flexible and scalable platform.
🛠️ Platform Tooling Landscape
The platform engineering tooling landscape is rapidly evolving, encompassing a wide range of technologies that streamline developer workflows, enhance automation, and improve infrastructure management. This includes:
- Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- GitOps workflows
- Service meshes
- Cloud-native runtime environments
For a deeper dive into the current state of platform engineering and its tooling ecosystem, check out this overview:
🔑 Key Components of Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering encompasses several key components:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD)
- Codespaces
- Monitoring and Observability
- Security and Compliance
- Automation and Scripting
- Cloud-Native Architectures
- Internal Development Platforms
- Kubernetes
- AI Infrastructure
🏗️ Platform Engineering Reference Architecture
A Platform Engineering Reference Architecture provides a standardized framework for building scalable, secure, and efficient internal developer platforms (IDPs). It integrates key components like Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps workflows, Kubernetes-based orchestration, and self-service developer portals to streamline cloud-native application delivery.
🌥️ Cloud-Specific Architectures
For a deep dive into platform engineering architectures tailored to specific cloud environments, check out the following:
- 🔹 Azure: Azure Platform Engineering Architecture
- 🔹 Red Hat OpenShift: OpenShift Platform Engineering Architecture
👩💻 The Role of a Platform Engineer
A Platform Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining the platform that supports the entire software development lifecycle. This includes:
- 🛠️ Designing and implementing infrastructure solutions
- 🔧 Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- 📊 Setting up monitoring and alerting systems
- 🔐 Ensuring security best practices are followed
- 🤝 Collaborating with development teams to understand their needs and provide solutions
🎓 Learning & Community
🎓 Certification Pathways
Check out our community-curated section on certification paths designed to support your platform engineering journey here:
🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions from everyone. Feel free to open issues, submit pull requests, and join discussions to help us improve and expand this resource.
Review our contributing policy here.
Thank you for being a part of our journey!