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Platform Engineering · a build-along course

Stop being the ticket queue.
Build the road everyone drives on.

Everything you learned so far (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, GitOps, observability, security) is a lot for every product team to master. Platform engineering packages it into a self-service product: a developer asks for a new service or a database and gets a production-ready one in minutes, with security and monitoring built in. In this course you build that platform for ShopLite, one mission at a time.

Start Mission 0.1 See the project map
3 stages11 missions49 guided steps16 break-it drills

The build

  1. 0

    Platform Foundations: The Paved Road on Kubernetes

    4 missions

    What platform engineering is, then the cluster add-ons every service needs: Gateway API routing, automatic TLS with cert-manager, DNS with ExternalDNS, node autoscaling with Karpenter, and guardrails with Kyverno.

    + The platform gains:a shoplite-platform repo with Gateway API, cert-manager, ExternalDNS, Karpenter, and Kyverno installed and configured via GitOps

  2. 1

    The Developer Portal: Backstage and Golden Paths

    3 missions

    A Backstage portal with a service catalog, golden-path templates that create production-ready services in minutes, docs-as-code, and plugins that show each service's deploys, pods, and health in one place.

    + The platform gains:a Backstage portal with the ShopLite catalog, a 'New Spring Boot service' golden-path template, TechDocs, and Kubernetes/Argo CD plugins

  3. 2

    Self-Service Infrastructure, Automation, and Measuring the Platform

    4 missions

    Crossplane compositions so teams claim databases and buckets through Kubernetes APIs, platform automation in Go and Python, and measuring the platform with DORA, developer experience, and cost.

    + The platform gains:Crossplane XRDs and compositions for PostgreSQL and S3, a shopctl Go CLI and Python automation, and a platform metrics dashboard (DORA, adoption, cost)