Day 28: Final Project – Deploying and Demonstrating Your IDP

Welcome to Day 28 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re finalizing and demonstrating a fully functional Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

What Should Your IDP Include??

By now, your IDP should provide:

• A service catalog & templates → Backstage
• Automated GitOps workflows → ArgoCD / GitHub Actions
• Observability & monitoring → Prometheus + Grafana
• Security enforcement → OPA Gatekeeper & Trivy
• Secrets management → HashiCorp Vault / AWS Secrets Manager

📌 Let’s deploy a real-world application to showcase our IDP in action!

🎯 Deploy a Microservice Using Your IDP

• Step 1: Use Backstage to Create a New Service
• Step 2: Push Code to GitHub/GitLab
• Step 3: Deploy via ArgoCD

kubectl get applications -n argocd        

📌 ArgoCD will automatically deploy the microservice!

Monitor Deployments & Security

Step 1: Visualize Logs & Metrics in Grafana

kubectl port-forward svc/grafana 3000:80 -n monitoring        

📌 Dashboards should display system health & requests.

Step 2: Run Security Scans

trivy image my-container:latest        

📌 Fix vulnerabilities before deploying to production!

Validate Developer Experience (DevEx)

1. Ca developers create servuces easily?
2. Is deplopyment automated via GitOps?
3. Are monitoring and security integrated into the workflow?

📌 This IDP should make engineering teams more efficient!

Activity for Today

1. Deploy a microservice using your IDP.
2. Validate observability, security, and deployment automation.

What’s Next?

Tomorrow, we’ll discuss certification paths and career growth in Platform Engineering.

👉 Check it out here: Zero to Platform Engineer Repository

Feel free to clone the repo, experiment with the code, and even contribute if you’d like! 🚀