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.

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depends on your purpose, but maybe <https://containers.dev/>

I prefer devcontainer or Nix (or devenv) for local development.

I don't have a "use this" recommendation yet, but I'll note that while Codespaces, Gitpod, and Development Containers get most of the PR hype, they kind of assume you have one primary service and don't seem that great for running a set of microservices.  However, there is a whole set of lesser-known tools that targets that use case: Coder, DevSpace, Okteto, Tilt, etc.  We're still picking what we want to use, but you can see some of our discovery work in <https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/82> .

Thank you for the thoughtful answers! I'll take a look at all those wonderful tools

<@U05J853MG21> +1 on Nix. Have you done any writeup on your setup? Is this just for you or for a wider audience?

Argo Workflows has good configuration on Nix. <https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/tree/master/dev/nix>
Devcontainer configurations are also present, so you can refer to them. <https://github.com/argoproj/argo-workflows/tree/master/.devcontainer>