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Mariya Skalka · Answer

eyes Questions from the stream < Luca Galante> who is the best to answer this Hi just curious here My understanding of platform engineering is somewhere in between devopasna sre and software architecture what do you think about that

Mariya Skalka · Answer

< Susanne Tünker> this one is for you do you think custom in house configuration services are still needed Or is it enough to use dotenv configmaps

Mariya Skalka · Answer

< Luca Galante> Is platform engineering somehow mix of cloud engineering + IaC + configuration management + ci cd + automation + system administration my company is planning to rename our to make it more inclusive

Mariya Skalka · Answer

and one more could you please define what is platform engineering

Susanne Tünker · Answer

gt do you think custom in house configuration services are still needed Or is it enough to use dotenv configmaps Teams can definitely benefit from configuration focused services This mostly depends on the complexity of your set up as well as the skillset of your developers though While most devs will be familiar with dotenv might not everyone feel comfortable managing configmaps and secrets in Kubernetes In that case you might want to think about implementing some kind of abstraction layer that simplifies configuration management and makes it more accessible to everyone by taking care of transforming everything into Kubernetes objects under the hood for example While this can be done as part of a custom in house solution is there also a lot of off the shelf tooling available thats worth to have a look at