Container Orchestration

Course overview

Uplatz provides this end-to-end course on Platform Engineering for Cloud Architects & DevOps Engineers. It is a self-paced course with recorded video lectures. You will be awarded Course Completion Certificate at the end of the course.

Platform engineering is the practice of designing, building, and maintaining a shared set of infrastructure tools and workflows that support software development and operations teams. Its goal is to improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and scalability by providing a self-service platform that abstracts away the complexities of infrastructure, deployment, and cloud services.

Platform engineering enables developers to focus on building applications by abstracting infrastructure complexities, while operations teams maintain control over stability, security, and scalability.

Key Components of Platform Engineering

1. Self-service infrastructure: Enables developers to provision environments, deploy applications, and manage resources without waiting for operations teams.

2. Automation: Automates repetitive tasks like testing, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring, reducing manual intervention and human error.

3. Scalability and Reliability: Ensures that the platform is built to handle increasing workloads efficiently and with high availability.

4. Observability: Implements logging, monitoring, and tracing tools that help both developers and operations teams to observe and debug applications in real time.

5. Security and Governance: Embeds security and compliance controls within the platform to enforce policies and manage risks.

Roles of Platform Engineers

• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) systems using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, or Ansible.
• Create CI/CD pipelines that automate the deployment process.
• Provide developers with reusable templates and services, simplifying tasks like cloud resource provisioning or container orchestration.
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems that help teams react to incidents faster.