Platform Engineer Roadmap
From orchestration and infrastructure-as-code foundations through GitOps delivery and service mesh, up to building a real internal developer platform, linked into Cloud Tech by Victor topic references.
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Platform engineering is built on top of orchestration primitives, start with how Kubernetes schedules and manages workloads.
A platform's golden paths ultimately generate infrastructure, declarative, versioned provisioning is the foundation they're built on.
Combine orchestration and infrastructure-as-code with a continuously reconciled, auditable delivery model, the backbone most platforms automate on top of.
A mesh gives every service consistent mTLS, retries, and observability without per-service code, a common building block platforms offer by default.
With GitOps delivery and a service mesh in place, package them into a self-service platform product teams actually want to use.
A platform is critical infrastructure for every team on it, logs, metrics, and traces are how you keep it reliable and debuggable.