What is Platform Engineering and how it fits into DevOps and Cloud world

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In this video we're going to talk about a  relatively new hot topic in DevOps and Cloud   space, which is “platform engineering”.  There is a lot of discussion going on,   where some people are asking whether platform  engineering replaces DevOps. Many people say   it goes hand in hand and is rather an addition to  DevOps, but in reality it's a bit more complicated   than that. Platform engineering actually changes  a lot of established rules we knew about DevOps,   SRE and Cloud engineering, it changes the game  and introduces some new rules. So let's clearly   define, what platform engineering exactly is,  more interestingly, why was there even a need   for this new role and how it evolved and of course  how it compares to DevOps and Cloud engineering   and does it really replace any of these roles?  Whenever a new role or concept appears, the first   question should always be: Why was there a need  for it? Because there must be a problem behind,   that couldn't be solved with existing solutions  and naturally caused the evolution of this role.   So let's talk about these problems that led to  emerging platform engineering as a solution.   Initially we had developers and operations working  in separate teams and developers were responsible   for programming the application. And when ready,  they would throw the packaged application over to   operations, who was responsible for deploying  and running that application. So while you had   a dedicated operations team with expertise to  properly manage the infrastructure or operate   company-wide CI/CD platform for example or other  platforms for the application teams, this was   an inflexible and slow process with developers  waiting on operations when they needed any change   in infrastructure or needed any infrastructure  resources like additional servers or Jenkins   pipeline for their applications. Or on the other  side operations team waiting on developers to fix   something in the application that affected the  deployment or application runtime etc. So when   DevOps was introduced it united those teams  removing the inflexible and limiting process.   So it removed the communication challenges  and knowledge silos between these two parts,   developing application and running and operating  the application. So this was a huge improvement   to the traditional way of working and this led to  one DevOps team that now owns the application as   well as the underlying runtime and infrastructure.  So basically the application itself and everything   the application needs to run. And this is way more  flexible, fast and just a cool way of working for   the engineers, but with lots of options and  ownership comes a lot of responsibility and   cognitive load. Now you’re having one DevOps  team, everyone developing the application and   running the entire stack under the application,  so you have one team where either developers or   a dedicated DevOps engineer is setting up a  CI/CD platform and creating the pipelines,   writing Terraform scripts for infrastructures  code, spinning up Kubernetes clusters, configuring   the cluster with best practices, configuring  logging and monitoring, adding security scans,   maintaining Helm charts, also maintaining all  these infrastructures code scripts as the tools   evolve and new versions come out, right? Managing  Docker repositories and all these in addition to   the actual application development, this is  why we are even doing all these other things.   And this increases the flexibility and speed of  work and efficiency, but naturally it also adds   tremendous cognitive load on the team, because  too many things that just few roles need to be   responsible for. But it goes even beyond that.  Now imagine you have another application team   developing a completely different application  and they have the same challenges and tasks.   So to increase their efficiency a DevOps engineer  designs the same CI/CD workflow for the project,   sets up cluster, maybe this time a managed EKS  service instead of self-managed one, configures   all integrations with AWS cloud, configures  the storage, adds security scanning steps,   monitoring the whole secret management and so on.  Maybe they use a different Docker repository like   ECR for an easy integration with the EKS cluster.  So they have the same challenges and same needs   for their application to run somewhere, so they  do all this stuff in their own ways with their   own tech stack, right? And maybe you have  10 more such teams in your organization,   now all of them need to figure out all these  things for their projects. So you end up with 10   DevOps teams building and operating 10 different  platforms to deliver and run their applications,   and this can be hugely inefficient and wasteful  as well as have high cognitive load on individual   engineers in those teams. And with complex  systems like Kubernetes, sometimes the part of   managing infrastructure becomes more effort than  writing application code and producing business   logic itself. So you have teams that are too busy  building a platform and have less time to build   the business value in the applications. Plus  you need expertise of so many things within a   single team if they have to manage the entire  infrastructure stack underneath the application,   which means many experienced engineers to add  to many teams, which naturally also means higher   human resource costs, right? And finally this  becomes hard to scale, because each new project   team will have the initial time and effort in  setting up the infrastructure before they can   even release the application to the end users  and very very important Point even though you   have these teams managing their own infrastructure  and platforms they may actually not have enough   expertise to do everything correctly so you may  end up with Kubernetes misconfigurations or lack   of monitoring and logging entirely or security  issues all over your systems plus when you have   one compliance or security team in the whole  company and tens of teams with 10 completely   different Tech stacks and just different different  ways of running their applications it will be   pretty hard for them to get insights and help  all these teams Implement proper security because   it will be really hard for them to understand  what's going on in all these individual projects   so this becomes hard to scale because we have no  standards also when each team uses different Tech   stack with different configurations this leads to  inconsistency across the organization and finally   I want to mention that the concept of you build it  you run it which we know from the SRE was created   back when applications weren't as complex as today  and the underlying environment for running the   application wasn't as complex either so in today's  highly complex multi-cloud multi-cluster or hybrid   Cloud world with thousands of microservices and  hundreds of services for those microservices   it's a bit too much to ask developers to integrate  this concept in their work like asking an expert   front-end engineer stop your work and focus on  properly configuring Kubernetes cluster is not   really cool and not the most efficient usage of  that engineer's skills so to quickly summarize we   either have autonomous DevOps teams going wild and  doing whatever being fast and flexible but also   leading to too much responsibility on one team  with high cognitive load and organization-wide   inconsistency or we have the traditional separate  Dev and Ops where infrastructure is managed and   secured but with a painfully slow process that  really limits the work of developers and that's   where platform engineering comes in to save  the day but only when implemented correctly So how does platform engineering solve these  problems platform Engineers take the tools   that are needed for deploying and running the  application and standardize their usage across   teams so if 10 teams use 10 different CI/CD  solutions make a standard CI/CD offering or   if every team uses Kubernetes but in different  ways standardize usage of Kubernetes so basically   platform Engineers standardize everything  that is part of applications non-functional   requirements so what are the things that we need  or the so-called non-functional requirements of   the application so basically things that  are not business logic but necessary to   deliver the application to its end users well  first of all every application needs a Version   Control System every application needs SCI  City pipeline the application needs to run   some somewhere like on a runtime environment  like Kubernetes Kubernetes cluster of course   needs an underlying infrastructure like AWS  Cloud platform or even a multi-cloud platform   the application and the underlying infrastructure  also needs logging and monitoring the application   also needs proper security so as you see there's  a lot of things going on that need to be set up   for the application to run properly and each of  these categories have lots of different tools   and Technologies right there are loads of CI/CD  platforms out there there are different Cloud   platforms and so on so platform Engineers  standardize usage of tools that offer these   services for the platform now this is a pretty  large list of services that platform team takes   over so does that mean that platform team now  becomes completely responsible for all this or   what exactly are they taking over do they create  currents cluster and configure it do they create   the whole CI/CD Pipeline and manage it  for the teams as well as operate these   tools or do a platform and product teams share the  responsibility for those services and if so where   do we draw the line between those responsibilities  and that's exactly where it gets interesting and   why I mentioned that platform engineering only  works if implemented correctly so let's talk about   and really understand what platform engineering is  responsible for when we think about the tools that   application needs like gitlab Kubernetes Jenkins  Cloud platforms databases and so on each of these   tools has two sides the admin side and the user  side the admin of the tool sets up and configures   the tool make sure backups are in place access  is secured they install any needed plugins and   so on so all the things to make the tool ready to  be used for the actual task that it's meant for   4. so for example current's cluster needs to be  provisioned Network plugin needs to be installed   access and permissions need to be configured for  security load balancer configured for the cluster   and a bunch of other stuff to make the cluster  ready to be used to deploy applications inside so   once the admins set up and prepare the tools to  be used the users can come and use the tool for   their intention like application developers access  Jenkins and create pipelines for their application   so you have a role that operates and manages the  tool and a role that uses the tool so these two   responsibilities can be easily separated now in  DevOps teams as I mentioned you have both of these   responsibilities in one self-sufficient team and  that means individual application teams can decide   how to operate and how to use the tools but as I  mentioned mentioned these are two separate set of   skills and you actually need separate knowledge  base to do each they are even separate Kubernetes   certifications for administering the cluster  which is a Kubernetes administrator certificate   and deploy into the cluster which is called  Kubernetes application developer certificate   because again you have to specifically learn each  aspect of the tool so in order to standardize the   tools across teams platform Engineers need to  take over the operation side of these tools   which means selecting the standard tools setting  them up again one standard way with production and   security best practices at the same time this is  an improvement for the application teams because   it takes the load off the application developers  so at least one part of the services they aren't   responsible for anymore so less cognitive load  and more capacity for creating the business value   in addition you can use the expertise of your  engineers more efficiently because now instead   of needing to have an expert on Kubernetes  cluster Administration in every team you can   have fewer in platform engineering team who take  over this work for all application teams same for   CI/CD tools database Administration and so on  so you basically extract the need of expertise   to administer these tools from the application  teams so instead of Engineers who kind of half   know this in that tool in every team you have one  expert team who has the expertise to operate these   tools properly plus be because it's their core  responsibility they also have more time for it   because they don't have an additional stress of  having to release new features so this distributes   the pressure responsibility and the need of  expertise among multiple application teams and one   organization-wide platform team and now instead  of each team deciding which cscd tool to use or   which Kubernetes cluster set up to use platform  team offers a ready solution for the application   teams and instead of each team building their  pipeline steps with security scans platform can   standardize that these scans are part of each  team's pipeline like if for example the company   has specific regulations for their industry or  country these regulation specific skins will be   part of every pipeline by default but wait didn't  we put Dev and Ops together to avoid the siled   teams that have separate responsibilities because  now it sounds like we have a separate platform   team that decides which tools are going to be  used company-wide and sets up all these tools as   they see needed and gives access to those tools  to the application teams sounds a bit like that   traditional approach that we definitely don't  want to go back to well no worries because it   continues from here this is just the Baseline  so now how do app teams access these Services   obviously it would be no improvement if we went  back to the slow inflexible process of developers   requesting resources from platform team to give  them access to some services so how does that work   platform team takes all these tools like Cloud  platform Kubernetes databases that application   teams need applies their expertise and configures  them properly so they are secure up to date   Etc then they create an abstraction layer on  top with a user-friendly interface like a UI or   API so that application teams can now come and  self-service whatever services and tools they   need so those provisioned configured secured  services with an interface to easily interact   and access them to use for the applications  is a platform and since developers can just   log in and self-service without going to platform  team to ask for the resources it is a platform as   a service for the internal developer teams or  also called an internal developer platform or   IDP so platform teams are essentially building  the IDP or internal developer platform hiding   away and abstracting the complexity of operating  and managing the services that developers need to   release and run their applications so basically  instead of application team logging into an AWS   cloud and provisioning eks cluster they go to  the platform or IDP log in to that platform and   use the eks cluster which is pre-configured  with the proper security backups Etc by the   platform team within minutes independently without  asking platform team for anything so application   team has the flexibility and speed to access the  services for their applications without needing   to worry about operating those Services now let's  go into how this all looks like in real world and   think about the following actual scenario  remember I said platform standardizes the   tools that are used across teams instead of  five teams using five different CI/CD tools   now let's imagine platform offers gitlab CI/CD  as a standard solution but what if application   team a says I want to use Circle CI instead so  basically teams want to have freedom to use new   modern Cool Tools or tools that may fit better  to their workflow maybe they want to use Argo CD   or specific service mesh for their microservice  application so it seems like with platform team   and the whole standardization we are locking down  the selection and saying that's what we use in   this company and that's it everyone abide well of  course not that won't actually be an improvement   and will take away a lot of the flexibility and  creativity that autonomous DevOps teams have   and the last thing platform Engineers want to do  is become a blocker and have a weird dynamic with   application teams because that will kind of ruin  the whole concept so instead of saying you can   only use the CI/CD tool or you can only use this  Cloud platform the platform will say oh you want   to use Circle CI instead okay we will help you  set it up and configure it with best practices   and once they do that they can now integrate it in  the platform and offer it to other teams as well   who may also benefit from using Circle CI in their  workflows and this way when new services are added   to the platform instead of limiting application  teams to only use the CI/CD tool or this Docker   registry and so on you are saying you can use any  of these Registries or CI/CD tools or any services   that we offer as part of our platform because  then we know that they are all properly configured   and operated in the background and with time the  platform may add more such tools that application   teams can select from now again in real life there  could be cases where one specific tool may only be   needed in one team in which case platform can  decide that that application teams stays the   owner of that team specific tool and they can  operate it themselves instead of integrating   it into the platform or the IDP so in no case  platform engineering should be mixed up with   the old way of working where the infrastructure  or operations team analyzes several tools for   security compliance Etc decides on one correct way  of using that specific tool and lock this down and   say to the developers this is the only way you can  use this tool and that's it because we already did   our analysis and that's the way to go so when  implementing platform engineer team in your   company you want to keep the platform flexible  while adding guard rails and pre-configurations to   ensure security consistency proper configuration  and so on so it's important to understand that   platform engineering is a step forward from  DevOps not a step backwards with Dev and Ops   separated again but I have to say in reality I  think if people don't understand the concept of   platform engineering properly there is a risk  of it drifting towards the step backwards and   I talked about the right approach but later in the  video I will go a little bit in more detail to how   to approach building platform engineering teams in  a right way to avoid that before moving on I want   to give a shout out to Pulumi, who is the sponsor  of this video. Pulumi is infrastructure as code in   any programming language like python, typescript,  .Net, Go Java. Pulumi lets you ship infrastructure   as code faster, because you have access to all  the standard features of programming languages,   like IDE, auto completion, type checking, loops  and conditionals. You can also ask Pulumi AI to   write your infrastructure as code script for any  use case, all using natural language prompts. The   automation API allows you to embed Pulumi into  your applications to power complex infrastructure   automation workflows. So you can manage 10x  more resources with it. I will leave all the   details of Pulumi in the video description and  you can use the links to sign up for Pulumi and   you will actually receive free swag from them.  Now let's move on and see why infrastructure   as code tools are an essential component of an  IDP? Now avoiding these strict rules apply not   only to which tools developers can choose but  also the usage of those tools like saying this   is the only EKS configuration you are allowed to  have well we want to give developers flexibility   in the usage of the tools as well not only in the  selection of tools and as I mentioned if we split   the responsibilities we see that platform is  there to take off the load of application teams   and create consistency in the organization in  the same way they're helping the product team to   correctly use the tools by introducing automated  guardrails integrated as part of the platform   so now the question is how can they integrate  those guard rails for using tools correctly into   the IDP and make it as part of the offering  and that's where infrastructure as code or   configuration is code templates come in platform  team can leverage infrastructure as code tools   like Terraform, Ansible or Pulumi to create  the templates this means that these templates   can have baked in best practice configurations  they will be used to automate provisioning of   resources and additionally offer the flexibility  for product teams to pass in various parameters   based on their individual project needs to  create and configure those services so we   have a fully automated self-service process with  a high flexibility again an example would be to   have various pipeline templates so if product  team has a python application they can use the   pipeline template for python APK specifically  which has security scan tools or test steps   for python applications pre-configured and  this leads to the point of how to implement   this concept successfully in a company the way you  absolutely should not approach this is by starting   off with a huge Master concept and this ideal  IDP or self-service platform that has all the   coolest features and modern tech stack integrated  inside and is super flexible and powerful and can   do thousand things this is not gonna work in  almost all cases and there are several reasons   for that which we're going to talk about in this  section instead we want to take a very popular   agile approach here as well you should start with  small steps which can immediately add value to at   least one team right away the reason is because  in many cases when application teams are using   old outdated Technologies maybe all the  versions of modern Technologies and so on   it will be very hard for them to migrate to  this full-fledged modern tech stack platform   in one full swoop right so it's not going to be  much improvement for them because they will now   have all the effort and work on their side  to actually start using that platform so as   a platform team or when implementing internal  platform in your organization you should always   first consider where the product teams are  actually starting from so what is a status   quo of Technology usage and then help them slowly  move from the current state to the ideal state in   steps and this is the approach that is way more  efficient so the first thing is you should treat   the IDP as a product what does it mean the IDP or  internal developer platform is is not a project   that you just Implement once and that's it  application teams should just take it from   there instead it is actually a platform as a  service that needs to be developed over time   and then continuously improved over time so just  like the applications that product teams develop   platform is the product that platform Engineers  develop and just like application team introduces   new features to the applications as well as  updates those features makes improvements and   so on platform teams also need to manage and  upgrade versions of the services they offer to   the product teams as well as new services and new  tools and Tool combinations and so on so it is a   product with its own development and release life  cycle so they are developing an internal product   or internal platform for developers and that's  why it's called IDP and as all other products   it needs ongoing work and item operations and as  I said just like you develop an application one   step at a time one feature at a time starting with  version 1.0 and iteratively improving it that's   how platform should be developed as well so now  the interesting question is what is the version   1.0 of platform where do you start well I have  some practical steps to answer that start with   low hanging fruits for example if you identify  the common tools that many teams use across the   organization this could be the first candidates  of tools that can be integrated into the platform   and be offered as a service this could be Jenkins  gitlab CI/CD Kubernetes volt so basically any tool   that has kind of become a standard so a lot of  teams are using it in order to do that you need to   work closely with application teams because you're  developing the platform for them to make their   work more efficient so it makes sense to see what  blocks them the most what is the most challenging   thing for them like managing Kubernetes cluster  and take over that part developers will be willing   to cooperate if they see that you're actually  solving them an issue or a bottleneck in their   work process if you start with random stuff like  hey teams you are all using different CI CDs so   we want to introduce a few standard offerings and  you all have to switch to one of those when you do   that you're actually adding more to their work  without improving their processes at least not   in the short term so such things should be done  more in a later step maybe version 2.0 once you   have proven to them that you're actually making  their work easier and more efficient and already   offloaded some of the work so now they have  a little bit more capacity to do this kind of   initial additional work so as you see building a  platform team successfully is as much about human   aspect and how to manage the work with application  teams and how to create a culture around it said   collaboration rules and clear responsibilities as  much as it is about tools and technologies that   allow implementing that self-service internal  developer platform and in long term you have   a company-wide platform engineer team and a bunch  of app teams and instead of each application team   doing their own thing and handling application  runtime and infrastructure in their own way   they use pre-configured services that they can  self-service via a platform that platform team   has built with the best practices and standards  and all the expertise already baked into it   so now a very interesting and logical question  is does this mean we don't need DevOps engineer   anymore we talked about the shared responsibility  between platform and application right that   platform takes over the operations part while  application team is responsible for properly   using the tools and integrating them into their  development workflow so application teams don't   need to set up and operate the cluster but  they still need to know how to deploy their   applications into the cluster properly like  create correctly configured manifest files   they don't need to know how to create terraform  modules for infrastructure but they still need   to know how to use those terraform modules and  maybe integrate them into their pipelines they   may get a CI/CD template from the platform but  they still need to set it up and add additional   needed steps for their application so in addition  to application development they still have some   non-functional requirements they need to worry  about even though the scope of that has become   way less by Distributing that to the platform team  and this means you still need DevOps engineers in   product teams but they now have shared their  cognitive load and don't have to have deep   expertise in cloud and Kubernetes and Helm charts  monitoring security compliance development and   hundred other things because now they are focused  on properly using those non-functional tools   rather than operating them so the work is more  focused and easier through this low distribution   but they still need to do those tasks properly and  need expertise in using those tools but here is   where it gets even more interesting as I said the  platform is also a product right it's a product   for the application teams the same way you need to  add features make the UI more user-friendly offer   services for new Cool Tools fixed bugs in the  platform develop terraform modules and using git   Ops create pipelines for their infrastructure as  code that is underlying the platform again if you   have a separate cloud or on-premise infrastructure  team or security team platform team needs to work   closely with them to build their platform product  so this means platform just like the application   needs a continuous development with many feedback  iterations and close input Gathering From The End   users which are mostly application teams but  sometimes also governance and compliance people   because they need access to the information about  whether systems are compliant across organizations   so all of these that I just described and listed  are actually processes that require DevOps because   they're the same processes that we use in  the application development so you have tons   of the DevOps processes needed in the platform  development process which logically would mean   that you may need a separate DevOps engineer role  in the platform team as well now in reality as we   know when it comes to DevOps there are lots of  variations of how organizations Implement that   it could be that companies hire platform engineers  who do the DevOps and Cloud engineering tasks and   they will just call it a platform engineer role so  different job title same skills it could be that   they move the DevOps engineers from the product  teams completely to form a separate platform   team but this would then create a vacuum in the  application teams because as I said you still   need someone who will create Kubernetes manifest  files or create CI/CD pipelines and integrate it   with various platforms so companies may make these  tasks as part of developer work so you may have   application teams without a dedicated DevOps  engineer role where developers are taking over   those tasks which is already practiced in many  organizations but the bottom line is that whether   you have a dedicated DevOps engineer role in both  teams or not you need the DevOps processes both in   the application and platform development and again  how companies decide to structure the teams and   the roles that is most probably gonna vary across  organizations So based on that you essentially end   up with application or product DevOps team and a  platform DevOps team now there is one question we   get asked a lot so I want to address it here in  this context many people ask which of these parts   do we teach in our DevOps bootcamp and courses  do we teach the application DevOps side or the   platform DevOps site and this question became way  more common since the introduction of the platform   role in our DevOps bootcamp you actually learn  both parts of DevOps administering and operating   or setting up the tools as well as using those  tools to streamline the development process   for example our Kubernetes administrator course is  completely about setting up and administering the   cluster as the name also suggests which would  be part of platform Engineers responsibility   while in Kubernetes module in our DevOps bootcamp  you'll learn mostly the Kubernetes usage side but   also the part of configuring proper monitoring and  setting up alerting in the cluster or setting up   load balancer and automatically deploying to the  cluster from a city pipeline for example when it   comes to infrastructure as code with terraform  that we talked about here in The Bootcamp   you learn how to automatically provision AWS  infrastructure like ec2 servers or eks cluster but   you also learn how to use the existing terraform  modules and integrate it in the application CI/CD   pipeline for example and same with every other  tool that we cover in The Bootcamp Jenkins next   sources repository for darker images we basically  provision these tools from scratch on dedicated   virtual machines then write infrastructures  code scripts to automate the provisioning and   configuration of these tools learn things  like installing plugins and doing Jenkins   Administration creating users and accesses cleanup  policies and Nexus for example so tasks that would   actually be part of the platform engineer's  skills but we also use these tools for setting   up application pipelines on Jenkins learning  different types of pipelines and how to configure   them how to integrate and hook them into various  other tools or uploading application artifacts on   Nexus and creating those repositories on Nexus  and so on and then in the gitlab cic course for   example it is very similar you learn not only how  to set up the CI/CD pipeline for the microservices   application but also the architecture of of gitlab  CI/CD and how to configure Runners locally as   well as on AWS virtual machine how to configure  different agents on those Runners based on your   pipeline tasks which again would be the knowledge  that platform engineer would need so we've had   for a long time DevOps engineer needing to have  this skill set of both setting up the cluster and   using the cluster setting up and securing AWS  infrastructure and using the infrastructure to   deploy and run applications now these tasks and  roles are split and rightfully so not because   knowing both is too overwhelming or because you  can't know everything I definitely love knowing   and doing both parts and I have been working on  those in my projects and you can actually learn   them but in reality depending on how complex a  project is it may be unrealistic that one person   or role will have time and capacity at their  job to do both so you you can decide what you   do with your full complete DevOps knowledge after  finishing The Bootcamp or the courses you can join   the platform team and use your knowledge there  to configure and administer tools and build the   developer platform with the knowledge or you  can join the development team and streamline   application development and release processes  there while being the interface or intermediary   between the platform team and your application  team and what's absolutely obvious is that you   can do any of these jobs much better when you have  the full picture and complete knowledge of these   tools from both perspectives because as a platform  engineer you need to work closely with application   teams and understand their processes to find any  bottlenecks or things that are needed in all teams   that can be standardized so the full knowledge  of understanding both sides like we teach in our   courses and bootcamp you can do the job much  easier because you understand both aspects if   you want to check out any of our courses I will  leave the information in the video description   and the final topic I want to address is what is  a difference between platform and Cloud engineer   well generally speaking platform engineering is  an enhancement of all other Concepts like DevOps   Cloud SRE as we saw throughout this video but if  we narrow it down to the main differences Cloud   engineer needs to know cloud services be expert in  that usually even specializing in one of the cloud   platforms so they need to know how to migrate  from on-premise to Cloud how to set up a hybrid   infrastructure manage the storage and backups and  Cloud manage Cloud costs so basically everything   Cloud related and they should be able to combine  cloud services to build infrastructure that maps   to what company needs but platform actually  has a wider range of knowledge of the tools   outside the cloud alone and they actually build a  platform that developers or product teams can use   to self-service any resources they need on top  of the cloud resources and various other tools   so basically they're taking the infrastructure  and service that AWS for example offers to custom   platform as a service for the company internal  teams so essentially they build a layer on top   of Cloud with bunch of cloud services as well as  other services and tools which are not part of   cloud and I'm sure as always each project will  look different and Implement these Concepts in   various ways many companies will hire DevOps  Engineers as platform Engineers many Cloud   Engineers will probably become platform Engineers  as well in smaller companies platform Engineers   will probably take over the DevOps role in larger  company Cloud team will work with platform team   and share their expertise so Cloud layer with  platform layer on top and and this may be   like this for a while until an industry standard  evolves of one standard way to structure the teams   it could be a large company that implements this  successfully at scale and then other companies   can basically replicate that successful model  so we have some kind of standardization there   but at its core that's the foundation and from an  engineer perspective it really helps you in your   job search as well as to actually do your work  properly when you hired for a specific role when   you understand these differences and the vision of  responsibility is because you can then guide your   team or you you can guide your company into having  more clarity around these roles as well so we've   talked about a ton of things in this video and I  really hope I was able to help you understand what   platform engineering exactly is how it fits into  the existing DevOps and Cloud world and I hope   you got some valuable information from this video  that you can use in practice in your own work or   generally in your career and with that thank you  for watching and see you in the next video! :)
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Published: Wed Jun 07 2023
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