Platform Engineering is Hard, and We are Doing it Wrong
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The document discusses the challenges and strategies of platform engineering, emphasizing the importance of creating effective internal developer platforms (IDPs) that improve productivity and reduce coordination for autonomous teams. It outlines essential components of a successful platform, including usability, viability, feasibility, and value, while cautioning against unnecessary complexity and assumptions. The goal is to provide a clear mission and build a foundation that meets the needs of developers across different environments.
Platform Engineering is Hard, and We are Doing it Wrong
- 1. Platform Engineering is hard! and we are doing it wrong! Dan Grøndahl Glavind @dangrondahl
- 5. Dev Ops DevOps Platform TEAM PATTERNS AND COLLABORATION
- 6. Ops Dev work change change info info info The gap between Dev and Ops
- 7. OPS work Dev Dev Dev work work Dev Dev Dev CHANGE Does Dev and Ops teams scale?
- 8. DevOps info change change change info info The full stack DevOps team change info
- 9. DevOps Does DevOps teams scale? DevOps DevOps DevOps DevOps DevOps “You build it, you run it” “You build it, you run it” “You build it, you run it” “You build it, you run it” “You build it, you run it” “You build it, you run it” “You build it, you run it” “You build it, you run it”
- 10. Dev change info info The Platform team Platform learn consume change change change info info
- 11. Dev Does the Platform team scale? Platform learn Dev Dev Dev De Dev learn learn learn consume
- 12. “It depends”
- 13. What is The Platform?
- 14. - Evan Bottcher A digital platform is a foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge and support which are arranged as a compelling internal product. Autonomous delivery teams can make use of the platform to deliver product features at a higher pace, with reduced coordination. What is a platform?
- 15. BUILD SHIP RUN CAPABILITIES APIS DOCS TOOLS SUPPORT INTERFACES SERVICES FOUNDATION CLOUD / ON-PREM / … INFRA DEVELOPER VISIBILITY More visible Less visible
- 16. I must convince my boss about this!
- 17. Yes! Make a platform that is… great!
- 18. ASSESS TRIAL ADOPT Cloud Resources Languages and frameworks Techniques Tools Your organizational landscape
- 19. Mission The platform should reduce costs and fit every teams’ needs.
- 20. Mission We will create, maintain and evolve an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for containerized workloads. The purpose of the IDP is to provide a path for teams within the <x> domain to become more productive with a measurable improvement in Time to Value.
- 21. Create a Team Charter Welcome to Team Awesome ● Our mission ● Who’s on our team ● How we want to collab with you ● …
- 23. Multi tenancy Network and Service Mesh Load balancers Policies Secrets Cluster failover Identity and Access Management Observability Hybrid cloud support The fat foundation
- 24. BEWARE THE RABBIT HOLE
- 25. BUILD SHIP RUN CAPABILITIES APIS DOCS TOOLS SUPPORT INTERFACES SERVICES FOUNDATION CLOUD / ON-PREM / … INFRA DEVELOPER VISIBILITY More visible Less visible
- 26. 3 Clouds 7 Clusters 1M Lines of yaml 3 Envs Focusing on scale upfront 0 Services running in prod
- 27. Why should I fund you?
- 28. COMPLEXITY
- 29. Scale is not a startup problem. Customers and market fit is!
- 30. BUILD SHIP RUN CAPABILITIES APIS DOCS TOOLS SUPPORT INTERFACES SERVICES FOUNDATION CLOUD / ON-PREM / … INFRA DEVELOPER VISIBILITY More visible Less visible
- 31. BUILD SHIP RUN CAPABILITIES APIS DOCS TOOLS SUPPORT INTERFACES SERVICES FOUNDATION CLOUD / ON-PREM / … INFRA DEVELOPER VISIBILITY More visible Less visible
- 32. Usable Can the value easily be experienced by developers? Viable Is it meeting the needs of the developers? Feasible Is it possible to deliver easily? Valuable Answering yes to all of the above Is it valuable?
- 34. $ alias yolo=”kubectl apply”
- 35. Service Interface Good abstractions hides complexity Infra
- 36. Let me tell you about all this complexity, that I have hidden from you!
- 37. Current Interface Good abstractions lowers coupling New Infra A Infra B
- 38. VISIBLE ENABLERS NEED TO MASTER NEED TO UNDERSTAND SHOULD KNOW EXISTS SHOULD NOT KNOW ABOUT foundation infra interface concept/ capability
- 39. VISIBLE ENABLERS NEED TO MASTER NEED TO UNDERSTAND NEED TO KNOW EXISTS SHOULD NOT KNOW ABOUT foundation infra interface concept/ capability
- 40. VISIBLE ENABLERS NEED TO MASTER NEED TO UNDERSTAND NEED TO KNOW EXISTS SHOULD NOT KNOW ABOUT foundation infra interface concept/ capability
- 41. Create a clear mission and align on it