Hey everyone. I’m new to the platform engineering field and I was wondering if anyone recommends any online resources or specific tools to learn to kick start my platform engineering journey. Thanks!

for me: • https://documentation.apeirora.eu • https://github.com/Cogniteo/awesome-platform-mesh both are more future oriented, with Distributed Architecture in mind, Service Discovery, Controller Pattern (not Terraform), etc..

Whoah, very helpful links, Piotr!

The Linux Foundation and CNCF are good websites to browse as they have lots of useful content. In particular, I recommend completing the learning paths for the CKA and LFCS certifications. Most of the courses are free which is a bonus! It is also worth getting some practice with Terraform as a lot of companies use it. You can play around building your own infrastructure for very little cost as most cloud providers offer a free tier for new accounts. I recommend picking AWS, GCP, or Azure as your cloud provider as these are the most commonly used providers.

^ I am against of Terraform, it does not provide REST API which is a MUST for Platform Engineering (eg. integrating portals like Backstage with a "backed infrastructure"), HCL/Terraform wasn't designed for Platforms

@Piotr Szwed what do you recommend instead ?

Azure Service Opertor, Crossplane, Amazon Controllers for Kubernetes, Google Config Connector, ClusterAPI, Gardener, KRO, building your custom Operators, etc..

will have a look at them. Thank you @Piotr Szwed

Terraform is not bad per se @Piotr Szwed - if you want a REST API, have one in front. If your backend behind that relies on TF execution - that’s not a sin at this time 🙂

Lots of helpful info, thanks everyone!

You can also have a look at, a capability based model for building platforms: https://cloudfoundation.org/maturity-model/