Posts Tagged "Platform Engineering"

¿Por dónde empiezo? Estrategia de modernización desde la perspectiva de un Platform Engineer

Modernizar no es solo usar Kubernetes o romper monolitos. Desde la trinchera de un Platform Engineer, modernizar significa entender por qué, planear cómo y habilitar el cambio sin poner en riesgo la operación. En este post exploramos las fases estratégicas de modernización y cómo traducirlas en acciones reales desde plataforma, con ejemplos prácticos, herramientas open source y aprendizajes aplicables al día a día.

Day 26: Securing Your Platform with OPA and Trivy

Welcome to Day 26 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll focus on securing Kubernetes platforms using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for policy enforcement and Trivy for vulnerability scanning..

Day 25: Canary Deployments and Feature Flags – Safe Rollouts

Welcome to Day 25 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’ll cover canary deployments and feature flags, two essential techniques for safe, controlled software rollouts in Kubernetes.

Day 24: Scaling Applications with Kubernetes HPA and Cluster Autoscaler

Welcome to Day 24 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into autoscaling in Kubernetes, focusing on Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Cluster Autoscaler to efficiently manage workloads..

Day 23: Managing Secrets with HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager

Welcome to Day 23 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re focusing on secrets management using HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager, two powerful tools for securing credentials, API keys, and sensitive data.

Day 22: Building Templates and Catalogs with Backstage

Welcome to Day 22 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into Backstage, the leading Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tool, to build service templates and a software catalog for streamlined developer workflows.

Day 22: Building Templates and Catalogs with Backstage

Welcome to Day 22 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into Backstage, the leading Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tool, to build service templates and a software catalog for streamlined developer workflows.

Day 22: Building Templates and Catalogs with Backstage

Welcome to Day 22 of the Zero to Platform Engineer in 30 Days challenge! 🚀 Today, we’re diving into Backstage, the leading Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tool, to build service templates and a software catalog for streamlined developer workflows.

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