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Platform Engineer capabilities

Developer platforms & experience

Build services that help teams complete common tasks themselves.

Developer portalsCLI / TUIGolden pathsBackstageSelf-service workflowsAdoption & developer feedbackDevelopment environments & onboardingPlatform as a product

Knowledge sharing & adoption

Help people find instructions and learn how to use a system.

Documentation & presentationsMentoringAccessible documentationCollaboration & improvement

Workflow automation

Connect repeated tasks through APIs, events, or automation tools.

WebhooksAPIsLow-code / no-coden8nBots

Test environments & data

Provide test environments and data with clear ownership.

Environment provisioningIsolation & cleanupRepresentative configurationTest-data access & privacyVirtual machinesEnvironment ownership & capacity

Infrastructure & configuration as code

Describe infrastructure and configuration so teams can reproduce them.

Infrastructure as codeConfiguration managementDrift detectionAccess, quotas & capacity

Containers & orchestration

Package workloads and learn how their runtime manages them.

DockerKubernetes

Connected capabilities

These groups sit on other islands and often come up in this work.

CI systems & execution Deployment automation Security & software supply chain Observability & reliability Delivery measurement & feedback Cost & resource efficiency