Platform Engineering

Automated platforms for reliable delivery.

Give product teams a supported path to provision environments and release workloads while platform owners retain control of security, lifecycle and operations. The platform can span reusable infrastructure, CI/CD and Kubernetes where the workload needs it.

Problems to solve

  • Teams recreate infrastructure and pipelines, producing configuration drift and uneven controls.
  • Shared modules have unclear ownership, breaking-change policy or upgrade paths.
  • Deployment credentials are long-lived, broadly scoped or managed differently across repositories.
  • AKS onboarding, secrets, policy and telemetry require repeated platform-team intervention.

Capabilities

  • Terraform and Bicep modules with versioning, validation and documented interfaces.
  • AKS and Kubernetes foundations, workload onboarding and cluster automation.
  • GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps CI/CD, including reusable workflows and environment promotion.
  • GitOps, policy-as-code, DevSecOps checks and artifact supply-chain controls.
  • Observability, operational automation and platform documentation for service teams.

Architecture concerns

  • Set platform product boundaries: paved paths, supported interfaces, exceptions and service ownership.
  • Design module state, version compatibility, promotion and deprecation without coupling consumer workloads.
  • Use workload identity federation and scoped permissions for CI; isolate secrets and approvals by environment.
  • For AKS, define tenant isolation, network policy, ingress, workload identity, secret delivery and upgrade ownership.
  • Choose GitOps reconciliation and rollback boundaries, plus logs, metrics, traces and actionable alerts.

Typical deliverables

  • Platform reference architecture, ownership model and workload onboarding path.
  • Reusable Terraform/Bicep modules, pipeline templates and example consumer configuration.
  • AKS baseline and GitOps workflows with identity, policy and security checks.
  • Developer documentation, operating procedures, dashboards and upgrade guidance.

Related engagement: Platform Engineering Accelerator.

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