From Journey to Practice: Platform Engineering

A GOOD PLATFORM IS CHOSEN, NOT IMPOSED. Golden paths that teams actually want to use.

Eleven teams, sixty services and an average of eighteen days to put a new service into production. That is where Points Club, the fictional company that runs through this course book, begins.

Over 10 chapters, you build Trail, Points Club's internal platform, treating the platform as a product: with users, a paved road, versions, support and adoption metrics.

You will learn to: map the teams' needs and decide what the platform offers first; create templates, self-service provisioning and reusable pipelines; build a service catalog with owners and documentation; build security and governance into the default path without blocking teams; operate the platform and measure whether it really speeds up the people who use it.

4 case studies, 20 diagrams, more than 30 labs (one on AWS, with cost alerts and cleanup, and four in Python on your own machine), checklists and exercises with an answer key.

About the author: André Romão Quinhoneiro has worked in IT since 2003. He is a DevOps Engineer at Broto, where he takes care of AWS infrastructure and information security. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a graduate specialization in Cloud Computing Projects.