Hi folks! We are pumped to see this community growing so rapidly. Almost a month ago @Karolina Junčytė encouraged you to share your T and linkedin accounts to your Slack profile. Why don’t we also add our job titles?! @Daniel Li goes first. I’m following 🛎️ There’s no doubt you can find many useful connections out here. Make the best out of it! 🚀

Hey there! I’m Max, co-organizer of the Kubernetes Community Days Munich. Just wanted to say hi! and would love to point out to our community event on October this year https://community.cncf.io/kcd-munich/ Everyone is welcome, and our CFP is still open! (Also we are looking von Sponsors 😅)

Some of you have been asking us for the slides from our PlatformCon speakers. We couldn’t get a hold of all of them yet, but here’s the first bundle of 32 speaker slides 👈. You’ll find there presentations of @Manuel Pais (co-author Team Topologies), @Taras Mankovski, @Nicki Watt, @Natan Yellin, @Maryann Bell, @Galo Navarro, @Nigel Kersten and many others. Save this link, so you can keep them all and review them once again. Also, don’t forget you can always rewatch all the talks here 👈! Enjoy the good stuff 🙂

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Both are owned by Microsoft, but a never-ending question - which is better - GitHub or Azure DevOps? Both are powerful tools for development teams that need to facilitate communication and manage projects. However, my vote goes to GitHub. Why? Mostly because GitHub helps projects be the most accessible to the open-source community. However, there are many other high(low)lights here and I found most of them covered in this blog post. Let’s discuss it here in the comments. Pros and cons, your preferences?

👋 Hi everyone! I'm Shlomi, DevOps Architect at CyberArk. For the last 3 years, I'm focused on building an internal development platform, it is a long journey. I wrote a blog post about the failures and the lessons we learned from this journey that you might be interested to read. https://medium.com/cyberark-engineering/5-lessons-for-a-successful-internal-development-platform-be4346be721e

A colleague and I discussed the benefits and drawbacks of moving from on-prem to the cloud. I think this article does a good job of highlighting the benefits of a successful migration, like: • Constantly up-to-date backup • Faster deployment • Always accessing up-to-date information • Flexibility to scale • Little to no upfront costs for the retailer • Latest tech used Though, we’re still curious about the pain points that arise in the process. Anyone has any thoughts (or solid resources) they can share?

We wanted to keep the momentum from PlatformCon 2022 going… So we’re serving up a new, community-driven newsletter about all things platform engineering. Happy to share the freshly baked Platform Weekly newsletter! 🥐🥐🥐 The aim is to deliver the freshest cloud native and platform engineering goods (aka news🤭) to your inbox each week. Stay hungry (for news), stay crunchy! 🥐

Hi Folks! 👋 I saw that @Max Koerbaecher mentioned Kubernetes Community Days coming soon to Munich so I wanted to also do a shout out for Kubernetes Community Days UK! 🇬🇧 It's taking place 22nd and 23rd November in-person in London at CodeNode (more details here - kcduk.io) and we're expecting around 300 people from areas such as engineering, software dev, security, leadership and more. Our CfP is currently open (closes 19th August) and you can submit here: https://kcd.smapply.io/prog/kcd_uk_2022/. If anyone is has not spoken before and wants any help with ideas or the submission, please let me know and I'd be happy to help. We're also looking for sponsors who are keen to connect with the Kubernetes community in the UK, sponsor options are here:

We updated our little home platformengineering.org with a some new designs, go check them out. We also wanted to make it easier to submit talks for anyone interested, link here 👉 https://zemgxob64xi.typeform.com/to/LM5NfS2t?typeform-source=platformengineering.org

HashiCorp 2022 State of Cloud Strategy Survey https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud Very interesting read & numbers!

86% Rely On Cloud Platform Teams

I work from Home and a co-working space

Without my glasses the new slack icon looks like a mad circus clown

Could just be me

Hey hey live with @Natan Yellin here! K8s CPU antipatterns 👉

Hello lovely humans! I wrote this recap article from the New Stack based on my favorite talks from PlatformCon. Here are some of the main trends I learned from all of you: • For a lot of engineering teams, true DevOps --> too much cognitive load on developers. 🧠 Platform teams can alleviate this by building golden paths, which suggest tools and frameworks to use for day-to-day tasks, but maintain developers’ freedom to deviate from the path where needed. • Platform as a product ftw. 💪🏽 Platforms that lack user buy-in, aren’t designed to address the needs of its users and don’t evolve their capabilities over time are likely to fail. 📉 • When it comes to finding the right level of abstraction, we see two main directions that are different but not mutually exclusive. ↔️ On one hand, there are more code-based, declarative approaches inspired by GitOps workflows. On the other hand, there are UI-based solutions. Big thanks to everyone who shared their platform stories + expertise. 🙂 Super excited to see what y’all come up with for PlatformCon 2023! https://thenewstack.io/what-we-learned-at-platformcon/

Great overview :) Specially how SRE & Platform come into play together https://www.getport.io/blog/platform-engineering

🎤 One of the better podcasts I’ve listened to recently. A discussion on how complex and tough building internal platforms can be. It also touches on how important it is that IDP workflows are native to the developer experience. Highly recommend! https://changelog.com/shipit/65

One of the most debated questions when talking about IDP is figuring out the right level of abstraction for an engineering team’s delivery workflows. Join the webinar with Signicat’s @Jon Skarpeteig tomorrow where we will chat about: • Challenges, design goals and how to deal with them • What worked when building an Internal Developer Platform at Signicat • Mistakes they made, how they tackled them and how you can avoid them After a 30 minutes talk, there will be 15 minutes for Q&A. We’d like to encourage you to submit your questions in advance.

Week 2️⃣ of Platform Weekly, already over 1k subscribers, amazing! Second issue is out, go read it 🥐and let me know here what you think about it. Btw we really want this to be a community newsletter so if you want to collaborate or have ideas to contribute, feel free to submit your proposal here.

I sometimes find it difficult to explain the difference between cloud and cloud native for folks coming from the old guard. Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda go straight to the point in and break down the distinction between cloud and cloud native. You might find it useful as well.

Discussing the right level of abstraction for your platform with @Jon Skarpeteig, join us!

If any other questions come to mind, please don't be shy about reaching out 🙂

A real platform veteran 💪 and former lead of the Walmart DevOps Dojo @Bryan Finster will join the webinar tomorrow to 💬 about: • Why internal platforms are a keystone of transformation • How platforms can make or break organizational improvement efforts • How a well-designed platform can enable developer freedom with enterprise guardrails This talk will be expanding on his PlatformCon talk and Bryan promised to answer questions from the community after. Join the webinar 👈

Anyone here uses Podman? I read this article about Podman vs Docker and I found it interesting that Podman is daemonless. Want to hear opinions from someone who’s using Podman in their companies.

The IDP space is evolving rapidly. In order to build a dynamic platform that can handle both app and infra configs dynamically, you need to have a Platform Orchestrator at the core of it. @Kaspar recently wrote an article on our evolving understanding on the topic. It’s a good read, curious what folks here think about it.

#intros Hello everyone. I’m new near.

#general has anyone implemented composer 2 using terraform?

Hi Team, The company I am currenlty working on a have dev/stage/prod environment. however a recent requirement came up to setup UAT environment We do have, rds (postgres), redis, mongodb, elastic.co as well . They are asking to deploy the UAT environment on the production eks cluster itself, but I am resistent to that. In my mind, the UAT environment setup has to on demand, thinking in future for the disaster recovery scenario How do you proceed with that? How do you actually setup UAT environment?

Hey everyone 👋 - I’m currently working on a new open-source project around infrastructure management/provisioning, particularly for platform teams, based on our experiences at Porter provisioning and managing a large number of AWS accounts and clusters. At the moment, we’re gathering some initial feedback/pain points around infra management for platform teams. If you get the chance, I’d really appreciate some responses to this survey: https://forms.gle/cBbWgdosa8pxsxgt9. Thanks!