Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

Hello Leon! I found these videos good balance between high level with some insights on certain Platform engineering areas. In my opinion, they set a good outlook on why Platform matter and explains why product mindset is important while building one.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2ywun-wTE>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ht63dMQ1g>

&gt; a standard set of ci/cd templates via github actions without it ending in tears
By CI/CD templates - do you mean only the pipelines definition or service templates (eg. containerised backend app with a database provisioned by default) as well?

<@U054ESAT5GU> I'm just trying to figure it all out at the moment as to what this means in a medium / large corporation

not to just plug our own product <@U04J2GPKPSQ> but I'm curious if something like <https://www.withcoherence.com/> would help you with sharing best practices across projects without copy/pasting tons of templates

Hey <@U04J2GPKPSQ>! I can speak from a small org size (±20 devs) what we found with GitHub Actions was being able to provide workflow templates that give teams a "golden path" for their apps/services. We're still in the process of moving to an _actual_ IDP, but we try to encourage them not to stray too far from the standard way we do things for the meantime.

Specifically, we have a repo with all our (versioned) action workflows in a `.github/workflows/` directory that trigger on `workflow_call` and have `inputs` and `secrets` that can be passed in. This allows teams to create their own workflows in other repos that simply "call" the shared workflow with inputs and secrets. e.g.
```uses: org-name/repo-name/.github/workflows/build-deploy-v1.yml@master
with:
  input-name: "value"
secrets:
  secret-name: "value"```
Works pretty well for us at this scale :slightly_smiling_face: happy to share details! (Might even write up post on our blog soon for the general public...)