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Stop Drowning in DevOps Complexity. Start Building Developer Flow. Is your engineering team bogged down by the very tools meant to empower them? The promise of DevOp ""You build it, you run it"" has inadvertently buried your best developers under a mountain of cognitive load. They're spending more time wrestling with Kubernetes YAML, configuring CI/CD pipelines, and navigating a maze of cloud services than they are writing the code that drives your business forward. This friction isn't just frustrating; it's a silent killer of innovation. It's time for the next evolution. It's time for Platform Engineering. The Platform Engineering Playbook is your definitive, hands-on guide to reclaiming your team's productivity. This book cuts through the noise and provides a pragmatic, step-by-step blueprint for building a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) on Kubernetes. Forget the ivory tower theory; this is a playbook filled with battle-tested strategies, real-world code examples, and the curated open-source toolkit you need to go from concept to a thriving internal ecosystem. This isn't just another book about Kubernetes. It's a book about building a product for your developers, a ""paved road"" that makes the secure, reliable, and correct way of shipping software the easiest and most joyful way. Inside, you will discover how to: Forge a Rock-Solid Kubernetes Foundation: Go beyond a basic cluster and master essential hardening, networking, and GitOps practices with Argo CD or Flux to create a stable, automated bedrock for your platform. Architect a Modern CI/CD Superhighway: Design a fully automated delivery pipeline that builds secure, optimized container images and deploys them with confidence using Helm, Kustomize, and progressive delivery strategies like canaries. Build X-Ray Vision with Self-Service Observability: Craft an integrated monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki that gives developers instant, actionable insight into their applications' health without needing to file a single ticket. Implement a ""Shift-Left"" Fortress: Embed security into the DNA of your platform. Automate compliance with OPA Gatekeeper, scan your software supply chain for vulnerabilities, and secure your network perimeter with service mesh and API gateways. Offer On-Demand, Self-Service Data: Eliminate the database bottleneck forever. Use the Operator pattern to provide production-grade PostgreSQL, Redis, and message queues as a service, provisioned with a single Git commit. Craft a World-Class Developer Control Plane: Build your platform's front door with a Backstage developer portal, providing a single pane of glass for service ownership, documentation, and operational control, complemented by a powerful CLI for power users. Master the Cost Conundrum: Implement FinOps principles to provide cost visibility and empower your teams to make intelligent trade-offs between speed, quality, and their cloud spend. This book is for you if you are: A DevOps or SRE Engineer tasked with taming cloud complexity. A Platform Engineer looking for a comprehensive blueprint to build or scale an IDP. A Software Developer or Architect who wants to understand and champion a better way of building and shipping software. An Engineering Leader seeking a strategic, data-driven approach to boosting developer productivity and accelerating business value. Don't let your team's potential be squandered on operational toil. Grab your copy of The Platform Engineering Playbook today and start building the platform your developers have always dreamed of.

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