Infrastructure teams are changing roles as organizations adopt cloud native technologies. DevOps is all about improving collaboration, automation and delivery, and Platform Engineering takes this a step further by building internal platforms that allow developers to move faster with fewer operational hurdles.
Good platforms abstract away the repetitive infrastructure tasks without sacrificing flexibility. Platform Engineering provides reusable building blocks so that developers are able to focus on writing business logic, instead of each team having to re-invent deployment pipelines, Kubernetes configs, or monitoring stacks.
The key principles of a successful platform are:
Deployments of self-service infrastructure
CI/CD pipelines standardized
