With the cloud native fundamentals in place we can start building a platform for our developers. In this masterclass you will learn what a developer platform is, why we need it and what characteristics a successful platform has. In this masterclass we put the Cloud Native tools together to form a product. We will go through both the theory and exercises of starting your platform journey.

By the end of this masterclass you will have gained a solid understanding of the more advanced topics of platform engineering which you will be able to go back and implement in your company’s organization structure.

Platform engineering

• What is platform engineering
• How a platform becomes a product
• Know your customer
• Team Topology
• Continuous integration and delivery
• How to work with multiple level of abstractions
• Basic theory of GitOps
• Pushing GitOps to the limit
• Learn how to decouple pipelines and releases
• Getting started with Helm
• Getting started with Kustomize
• Getting started with Shuttle
• How to use Flux to reconcile state

Exercises

• Setting up a GitOps repository
• Abstracting away templating
• Abstracting away scripts
• Setting up a default CI/CD pipeline
• Releasing a service

Prerequisites for participating in this masterclass We expect that participants will either have Docker and Kubernetes installed on their laptop, or have access to one. A good choice would be Docker Desktop.

We also expect that you have either participated in [Platform Engineering Fundamentals] or that you already have a fundamental understanding of Docker and Kubernetes equivalent to the material in Platform Engineering Fundamentals.