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

That’s a great point <@U03KB91STGR>

The fact that we burden people with new tools and process, we see the resistance to learn/adopt.

The goal of DevOps, GitOps, IaC, and even security practices should be that they become a transparent layer. Employees should not see or face them as yet another barrier to do their work.

However, we cannot reach that transparent state in day1. It’s a journey. Here’s my 2c:

1. Not everyone in the company needs to be an IaC expert. Typically your platform/infra teams will handle those tasks. 
2. Lot of IaC tools have an SDK or plug-in so that developers can use their familiar language to make the same API calls. This abstracts away the tool-specific complexities from the developers.
3. Once an organization identifies an appropriate tool and they need their infra/platform team to learn/adopt, they can plan baby steps with a PoC first, then a few machines in the dev environments, and finally production usage. But a buy-in from the team is a first even before that first baby step.