Platform engineering

Platform Revolution: How Platform Engineering is Reshaping Software Development

Platform engineering is an emerging discipline that transcends traditional IT roles by bridging software development (Dev), operations (Ops), security (sec), and quality assurance (QA) into a coherent, streamlined workflow

December 13, 2023 · (updated February 9, 2024) · 15 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts

Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts - SLSA

SLSA (Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts) is a security framework designed to ensure the integrity and security of the software supply chain. It is a set of guidelines and best practices that aim to prevent tampering, improve integrity, and secure packages and infrastructure in software development and deployment.

November 13, 2023 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 10 min · Pradeep Loganathan
GitOps with ArgoCD

Gitops with Argo CD

GitOps is a methodology for continuous deployment using a Git repository as the single source of truth. Argo CD is a declarative, continuous delivery GitOps operator for kubernetes. In this post we will deploy ArgoCD to a kind cluster and deploy an application, the GitOps way.

August 22, 2022 · (updated December 16, 2023) · 9 min · Pradeep Loganathan
GitOps

From Code to Cloud : The Rise of GitOps in Automated Deployments

GitOps is a methodology for continuous deployment using a Git repository as the single source of truth. The repository contains the YAML manifests or Helm charts for the Kubernetes resources to be created. The Git repo is used to store, track and version control changes to these YAML files.

July 7, 2022 · (updated December 25, 2023) · 11 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Platform engineering with Backstage

Internal developer portals with Backstage

Backstage is an open source tool for building Internal developer portals. It improves the overall developer experience by delivering the core features of a developer portal, such as Software Catalogs, templates, and documentation.

May 3, 2022 · (updated February 2, 2024) · 10 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Policy as Code

Policy as Code: Revolutionizing IT Compliance and Governance.

Policy as Code is the idea of writing code to manage and automate policies. Policy as Code arose as a natural progression from Infrastructure as Code.

January 2, 2022 · (updated February 2, 2024) · 10 min · Pradeep Loganathan
AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is an IaC tool for creating AWS resources in a declarative way.

May 30, 2017 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 6 min · Pradeep Loganathan