The Golden Path to Platform Engineering

This 2-day practical workshop covers key topics in platform engineering, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Kubernetes, Crossplane, and automated deployment strategies. It’s designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators looking to build and manage robust platforms.

The course includes hands-on exercises based on real-world scenarios, ensuring participants gain practical skills they can apply immediately.

All participants will receive comprehensive materials, including cheat sheets, access to online slides, and code examples.

Who’s This For: developers, devops engineers, system administrators, software architects.

• Introduction to Platform Engineering: Definition, scope, key principles (automation, self-service, scalability), and the Golden Path concept.

• Designing Scalable and Resilient Platforms: Principles of architecture design for scalability, auto-scaling, auto-healing, and high availability.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps: Overview of IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi), implementing GitOps for continuous delivery (ArgoCD, Flux), and hands-on labs.

• Containerization, Orchestration, and Crossplane: Managing Kubernetes clusters, extending Kubernetes with Crossplane, and hands-on deployment exercises.

• Automated Deployment Strategies and Auto-Healing: Advanced deployment strategies (Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling Updates), implementing auto-scaling, auto-healing, and automated rollbacks.

• Building Developer Portals and Self-Service Platforms: Enhancing developer experience through self-service portals, integrating tools, and real-world case studies.

• Observability and Monitoring for Platform Engineering: Implementing observability, monitoring platform components, and integrating Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

• Security, Compliance, and Policy Management with Kyverno: Policy management and enforcement with Kyverno, automating compliance and security audits.

• Service Meshes, Network Management, and ChatOps: Implementing service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), managing network security and observability, and using ChatOps for real-time platform management.

• Advanced Platform Customization and Extensibility with Crossplane: Customizing Kubernetes platforms, managing multi-cloud environments, and extending Kubernetes APIs with Crossplane.

• GitOps and Continuous Delivery: Deep dive into GitOps principles, automating continuous delivery, and hands-on labs for implementing GitOps workflows.

• Case Studies and Hands-On Workshop: Review of real-world implementations, building a full platform engineering workflow (IaC + GitOps + Kubernetes + Crossplane + Kyverno + Service Mesh + ChatOps), and group discussions.