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

Platform Engineering - What it is, how it works and how it fits into DevOps and Cloud world
Also how to approach implementing an IDP - internal developer platform.
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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?
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0:00 - Intro and Overview
0:50 - Why Platform Engineering? Issue in traditional and DevOps teams
08:30 - Standardize usage of tools
09:09 - Non-functional requirements
10:55 - What Platform Engineering is responsible for?
15:47 - How Platform Engineering works? Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
17:53 - How it looks in real-world?
22:33 - Flexibility with Infrastructure as Code
24:30 - How to implement an IDP successfully
30:14 - Platform Engineering vs DevOps
34:53 - Both Skills in TWN education
39:33 - Platform vs Cloud Engineer
41:01 - Wrap Up
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[@TechWorldwithNana]

Hope you got some valuable information from this video! Please leave a like and share it with your colleagues if it was useful 😊👍

[@maxfalc]

absolutely!!

[@allards]

Thanks for making it, it’s giving me energy back to be enthusiast about my career again.

[@mdnahidparvez9877]

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[@adewaleadeyinka3146]

I did. Thank you so much

[@MultiDheerajSharma]

great tutorial Nana. Can you share the link to download PPT presented in this tutorial?

[@Eriddoch]

This video blows me away! I share it with everyone in my organization. I'm an ML Platform engineer. It's exactly as you describe, except we replace "application team" with data science, analytics, ML engineering, and AI research.

[@maykopetersen5741]

Someone sees and searches a lot of videos about the theme... but Nana ALWAYS explains like no one. Thank you!

[@dylangovender]

What an absolutely great video! The more you explained, the more questions I had... and you answered those questions as if reading my mind.

[@paulakokic2355]

Once again, incredibly done! Thank you very much for clarifying those topics, Nana 👍👍

[@steve-at-yt]

Danke, Nana! Ich bin immer wieder beeindruckt, wie ausgezeichne, suverän und informativ deine Videos sind. Ich arbeite seit rund 1 Jahr genau an diesem Thema und staune einfach wie gut Du das Thema ansprichst und auch sehr verständlich erklärst. Weiter so 🚀

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Vielen Dank Steve! So ein Feedback zu hören freut mich sehr 😊🙏

[@sijjshawn]

This topic is really a need of an hour to clarify the confusion between Platform Engineering VS DevOPS . Thanks as always for coming up with comprehensive & clear content Nana. :)

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Yes, the length was needed to properly explain all the different aspects of it 😊 Thanks for appreciating it!

[@davidheereman1086]

Love it, great 👍 explanation as always 😊. To see the P in IDP as "Platform" instead of "Portal" was new to me and triggered a few new thoughts, so thanks!

[@sdvideo9]

This was very helpful video. I am in process of setting up Platform Engineering function for my company and taking somewhat off a different approach (combining DevOps, SRE and Platform Architecture) and would love to discuss live with experts like you.

[@akhadir2]

As always good to see another brilliant topic. Well articulated with options of influencing others to adopt to this culture. Well done! Thank you Nana

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you for this great feedback, so happy to hear it's helpful :)

[@noresize]

This is so well made! Great work Nana, as a platform engineer I approve!

[@venkatamangina9808]

This clears a lot of clouds in the sky. Thank you much

[@ivardu]

My Job got very easy, now I can explain to my friends by showing your video exactly what we do in my organization ( PE + App Devops)

[@Necromancer-kz4rx]

Wow. This is such an awesome explanation! Thank you so much. Well done! 🙏🏻🙏🏻💓💓

[@thirstyexplorer]

Wow, another useful one. I didn't even know that there is a role like Platform Engineer, but now I even know what this role's responsibilities are. Great, thanks for the video ❤

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for the feedback, happy it was useful for you! :)

[@vishalphansekar6466]

First video i have got on youtube after seeing many videos related to platform engineering where platform engineering is explained in simple understandable and correct to the point with some extensions of future happenings to it.

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you Vishal!

[@aravindgovindaraj]

Thanks ... nice and easy grabbing explanation.. It's giving space to think more options instead of strict into single which may vendor lockin...

[@rajithkumar3424]

As always , good to see such a relevant topic. Thank you Nana

[@KRICHAN_Technologies]

Power video from powerful lady 😊😊 who is great expert on the DevOps. Nana always comes up with a lot of meaningful videos which will be more helpful. Thank you

[@TechWorldwithNana]

😊🙏

[@milotamir]

Thank you for amazing video. Explained so clearly.

[@nagavenkataprasad1863]

Nice video. Nowadays we see more Platform teams and this video is good to know their responsibilities

[@princechime8754]

There is always value to take home listening to you. it was a good use of my time.

[@hasanbaaqeil42]

WooW amazing pace.. clear flow.. to the point.. well done do e

[@o.g3433]

As always, Good job and very well detailed video on Platform Engineering. However, I would appreciate if we have a sample IDP platform added to the video. Hopefully we can have that in the next video. Once again, great job Nana!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thanks for the feedback! :)

[@amonaurel3954]

Perfectly explained as always. Thanks a lot!

[@user-li1xb9wz5f]

This was very helpful video. Good job and very well detailed video on Platform Engineering.

[@dwaynearthur1476]

Thanks for your explanation ,I am new to all of this .Learing as I go.👍👍

[@kkyes]

thanks for this very clear explanation... being an devops engineer; I was wandering what is that team bringing up standards for us and why !! know i know they are platform engineer... making our life easy!! :D

[@susmitagangopadhyay2412]

Very well explained 👍

[@user-qr4jf4tv2x]

i'm 100% certain companies will mess this up and just end up renaming devops to Platform Engineering

[@po6577]

Yeah this is a great concept but not feasible is most cases. Most company works in chaotic but somehow still delivering products. This add more to the chaotic.

[@everwake242]

Don't worry, where I work I had this team until 2018 when management decided it was not needed as Devops would fix it. ( today a manager sent me this link as a great idea to promote) circle of....life?

[@sdwone]

Then maybe we should just stop coming up with new shiny terms and shit, so that we have a chance to catch our breaths and get accustomed to the mess that we all have to deal with NOW then! Seriously... At this rate, Developer Fatigue will soon become a serious problem!!!

[@confused6526]

@@sdwone I do not think this new thing comes form Nana though, to be fair. It is just a new trend of DevOps that in fact, Google has applied to their own work. Be open and see the values and the benefits the Platform team an add to your projects. In fact, contradictory to your last statement. The Platform team will reduce the "Developer Fatigue".

[@jeremyseay]

That's what we're doing

[@nitinmore7686]

Great elaboration, creastal clearing the roles!

[@DataCraftsman]

This video hits me so deep in the soul.

[@lewissheridan]

Brilliant presentation. 💡

[@shantanushekharsjunerft9783]

Wonderful presentation!

[@user-vz3bb8zo7w]

Great explanation. We have a client example if anyone is interested. There were several questions about it here.

[@joaohenriquepimentel7146]

I work on a company that develops/sells a self service platform. Now that we can use our own product, we are much happier developers 😂

[@user-uo6dh9yu3y]

Really you are the docker captin., am in india,, but you are the best❤

[@alexanderfitterling]

you are amazing. great talk as the others.

[@arnoldoree]

Great introduction 👍

[@eradubbo]

This is quality content!

[@ZFlyingVLover]

This is what an architecture review board is for. Architects will establish the templates that says what the standards should be so that resources , security and knowledge is reused for all projects.

[@thomash.8297]

Interesting video, thanks Nana!

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Happy to hear, thank you for your comment! :)

[@suru1432002]

"The content was presented and articulated very well. While I understand that PE can be adopted in large MNCs with multiple teams working on different products, I am curious about how this new role would fit in a startup company with a tech organization of fewer than 200 employees who focus solely on a single product."

[@neilmcalister1310]

I'm a DevOps Engineer that works across multiple development teams and I'm already doing what Platform Engineering set-outs - as you should do. Platform Engineers are more of a concern for large organisations that have scaled out of control in isolation of each other (i.e. a DevOps Engineer in every team that might be gathered around a permanent project)

[@patelmilind7621]

Hii sir I'm civil engineering student learning basics of Linux currently and want to make career in devops... .can you please guide me....

[@Ycneuqerfesiar]

@@patelmilind7621 forward

[@ramrajkonuganti4343]

@TechWorldwithNana - I’ve already signed up for your DevOps bootcamp program and I’m planning to take CKA certification this year. So, the K8s module from the bootcamp is god enough for the CKA certification or do I need to signup for the CKA course offered by you? Also, I really appreciate your work. I get to learn a lot from your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@chandurdissanayake9544]

Inspiring! 💯

[@DaNiePred]

Well explained, thanks for that. At 15:00 I was just wondering...wouldn't that be part of SRE role more or less? To define and host the platform, providing a portal to allow DevOps to utilize the environment?

[@nazeerahammed9865]

Superb explanation! In simple words Platform Engineers does a PhD in one individual tool 🙂.

[@vahaggn]

Thank you for your useful video. One question for the platform which Platform team should offer, need to develop an application or just write the standards and when someone from DevOps team need to use can run the pipeline from Azure or another CI/CD

[@khatwanik]

Thank you Nana for creating this video and explained with such simplicity Platform Engineering, IDP and how it reduces Cognitive Load for both Dev and Ops and at the same time applying DevOps principles and best practices. While you explained difference between Cloud Engineer Vs Platform Engineer in the video, where does SRE Engineer fit into and what specialized skills required for an SRE Engineer in this model? Should this team be separate or part of Platform Engineering?

[@confused6526]

SRE is for monitoring, performance, and operational of production system. The skill a SRE needs to have is (1) to able to identify where the performance issues are (2) how to improve the performance of the system based on what he/she observes? (3). identify possible cyber attacks in real ti9me., etc...

[@shoebshaikh6532]

Could you please let me know, what do you use to create these awesome presentation?

[@khatwanik]

Thanks!

[@nidhika1903]

Any video where you covered message ques, Kafka, RabbitQ etc ? Your video's are helping a lot to upgrade myself

[@AxaGarcia]

This video should have millions of views!! But I guess the term it is still catching on

[@nkochubashev]

First of All is like that video without intro! 😉

[@phidophuong6209]

Its really helpful. Can you introduce about Backstage?

[@nagitoyup6929]

one of two devops engineer for a company of 500 people doing cloud/platform and SRE. Good to see a video that outlines it. Lots of people asks what do you do. This video basically sums it all up. Nice.

[@confused6526]

Only two of you? You must be under stress all the time?

[@princemarkied8071]

You are the best!

[@ooogu8893]

@techworldwithnana what app did you use to create the presentation / slide deck please

[@supercrazyjoel9105]

Great video, I do have a question the video focused on development side of things with the application teams and the internal developer platform. How does this work with a transition to Prod? Is it the Platform Team who also manage the deployment into Production?

[@zoltannemeth8864]

Hi, no, the “Product Team” also called the “DevOps” team in this video not only builds the solution, but they also run it (sometimes with the help of an SRE team).The notion of “handing off” the application to some “ops” team is basically the core of the old IT model. The Platform team tries to automate the infra so that the cognitive load is not so heavy on the Product Team (app team) in terms of having to figure out all the infra stuff. But they (platform team) do not provide “ops” for the app - because if you did that, it would basically just be the old model all over again (slow, inefficient, etc…)

[@n0sr3t3p]

Cognitive overload is an understatement, thanks for describing this.

[@gmitto75]

do you have a Devops bootcamp focused around GCP instead of AWS?

[@lanpar7647]

would the first step by an assessment across the boards on whats tools are being used ?

[@tushar18]

hello, mind me asking which software do you use for the animations?

[@ethanshen5872]

I'd be the first buyer of a book that consolidates all the audio script of this video

[@xxxxxGhostBoyxxxxx]

Sounds like DevOps with specialized tasks and responsibilities to me. In such setup, a team of devops engineers sitting at higher level with focused on standardization of tools and their configs org-wide. While product-level devops can continue building automation, feedback on the requirements for new tools to them. Thinking about it, who's going to decide on the breaking changes upgrade required for one team which not needed from the rests if they already part of IDP? Most likely that particular team will just have to suck it up and bear with it until the other teams require needs to do so. Or they could be detached from integrated platform and running their own separate instance again which then created a lot of fragmentation forked from the original IDP. This is classic automation and standardization problems across any designation, With the increased requirements, the implementation will be too complicated and hampered away the idea of "standard". I'm just thinking instead of creating a new role of PE, probably devops philosophy should add one more component there is, called collaboration. Probably engineers could be come up with some sort of internal collaboration platform / database that tracks the version, config implementation for their team. Product-level team can refer to this when making changes enhancing collaborative but on much decentralized approach. Much like Git for Platforms and Tools. Then you can have a forum or symposium between multiple devops team every year to collaborate and consolidate some of the tools. That way they dont have to communicate their requirements to another team and stay collaborative and scale as an org-wide team.

[@rrmnj]

Nana never misses.

[@jonathanl5298]

To me it often seems more cost and time-efficient to standardize the use of existing cloud PaaS-offerings instead of trying to build something similar in-house. Serverless, ECS, Azure Container Apps etc. If you invest the time to build a great IDP on bare metal you might as-well become a cloud provider yourself.

[@AnastasiyaMaldavanava]

Hello Nana, first of all thank you a lot for your great videos. I have a question to you. Which IDE would you recommend for DevOps task (as writing jenkins file, ansible tasks, terraform code etc). And it would be very interesting to hear about testing in DevOps. How do you do this (again i'm taking about jenkins file, ansible tasks, terraform code) Thank you

[@confused6526]

Any modern IDEs (VSC, IntelliJ, Eclipse, etc...) will do.

[@MicheleArpaia]

why do you conflate PaaS and IDP? please elaborate. Thanks! (great content)

[@autohmae]

27:20 I think we should say: application teams, because such a team maybe should not be just developers, they should have an ops person, so they can do proper devops together.

How "Platform Engineering" would resole following issue: IDP consist o a mongodb cluster (on the cloud) and template to create mongodb databases by the teams. There is a new version of mongodb. Team A wants to use it, but IDP ("Platform") only support previous version of mongodb. Should Platform team update IDP and force everyone to use new version of mongodb or should they create V2 IDP with new mongodb cluster and support 2 clusters (old and new for Team A) ?

[@davidmilet542]

Key success factor for Platform Engineering to be successful is a vision at company level on application architecture. Else App teams will pull the Platform Engineering teams in many directions with too many requirements

[@confused6526]

So the thing is: you can't eat the cake and have it too. It means that the Platform will take up the huge burden of standardizing various DevOps tech stacks, therefor they will need a lot of different SMEs - in their Platform team - who can properly implement the guardrail, admin and security compliance. But I also see the point of separating Platform team from the traditional DevOps team. This makes a lot fo sense and very practical. If the implementation of Platform team is properly done, then we have a paradise of DevSecOps.... well it is still a big IF as Nana mentioned a few times.

[@ricardorqr]

Which tool have you used to create this video?

[@mr.nobody4494]

Hi, it would be incredible to have a new premium bootcamp/course updated to use Argo CD and Tekton environment together with aws/azure, kubernetes, ansible, monitoring, etc. Thanks in advance!

[@sijjshawn]

Argo CD is super easy . Does documentation is not user friendly ? I created & managed many interfaces across many micro services in one Argo CD interface .

[@austinloveless5171]

How do you fill in gaps that are missing on the platform? Like if the platform team has not defined some terraform modules that an application team needs. Does Application team wait for the module to be developed? Does the application team write the terraform module?

[@confused6526]

That is not what Platform team should do. What it should do is to come up a standardized, generic, general templates where the App team can simply use them by injecting them with their own parameters. Pleas re-watch the video again when Nana talked about "Parameters" thing.

[@nimam3530]

Thanks

[@TechWorldwithNana]

Thank you Neil!

[@nimam3530]

@@TechWorldwithNana thank you for providing such excellent and well-polished content.

[@respectoss]

looks like new brand terraform-like approach for devops instruments. But culd anybody bring example of this platform? It looks like a set of rules for big organizations with many teams

[@yippeeki-yey]

Well, now I understand who I work for

[@bashardlaleh2110]

It's weird that I have never seen any platform engineer job description on LinkedIn that mentions this IDP thing!

[@mograinne]

Any examples of IDPs that already exist so the platform team doesn't have to develop it from scratch?

[@kampanartsaardarewut422]

Excellent explanation but the more I see the problem, the more I doubt 🤔. Why do people add something in unnecessarily and hope everything will be simplified?🙄 It doesn’t make sense to simplify things by adding something in. Besides, this kind of process may only need by ~1% of the company in the world.😑 Shouldn’t they limit the tech stacks and standardize them by policies then focus on the business competition?🤔 Shouldn’t they use their current tech stacks proficiently effectively efficiently instead of knowing it shallowly from tutorial?🤔 Problem -> Add something in -> Find more people to do -> Human resource cost -> Problem 😂😂😂

[@ofir2565]

How do I start with deploying an Internal Developer Platform? Are there already existing technologies for that?

[@confused6526]

There's no such thing as Platform Technologies. It is a task that one can implement using existingZIaC tech stacks. Start small as NanA describes in the video and ramp it up gradually when your Platform gets more mature over time.

[@djulianBlacklizzChanel]

What's up Nana❤❤❤

[@yotu9670]

Funny enough from dedicated teams for dev and ops to DevOps and now it’s changing again to devs, Platform engineers, cloud engineers and Devop engineers

[@confused6526]

DevOps is just a concept. It is NOT a role.

[@mwildam]

Anyone remembering the time when for deployment it was sufficient to upload a file? I think, nowadays some things in IT go totally wrong. Do we really need all that stuff? I only have very basic knowledge of Kubernetes, but if you need two separate certifications for administration and deployment for frameworks like this, then something goes terribly wrong and we must ask, if at this point this is not generating more problems and work than it helps avoiding.

[@amjads8971]

Wow

[@aliandy.jf.nababan]

This platform team are only required on large company that develops tens so on software with tons microservices. One DevOps team to standardizing pipeline, so every programmer only working on top of those. It's scalable in pursue of smaller user member workers. But why not build own cloud on top of own bare metal? I think it's better rather than paying rent cost for cloud. That's supposed to be platform team and DevOps team works closely.

[@ifyugwumba8120]

When you say Devops teams do you mean cross functional teams

[@viveksachdev5704]

I think giant companies will make a product for all tools and then sell it to other small companies. Is this possible?

[@confused6526]

it is possible and doable. It need a lot funding and efforts to build such a one-size-fit-all product.

[@aelmasry5397]

Standarization and Tools, technology consistency is Enterprise Architecture Team Role and who is a bridge between teams

[@confused6526]

hummm ...I think you need a "Solutions" Architecture Team. Not an "Enterprise".

[@ireadhelpfilesandwritetrai1008]

But self service development is an additional tool that the company needs to support + there is no way to implement project specific optimisations on the platform.

[@josemartinez0530]

Meta is on a whole different standard when it comes to profiling and past profilung but we live in the present so what does that matter to us as it is memories.Virtualization.

[@galleon8129]

This is another layer of Cloud Operations

[@tomasferrari92]

I love u nana

[@ldld7210]

summary: platform just combines devOps, Cloud and security all into one

[@AxaGarcia]

Haha yeah right

[@confused6526]

And that is called "DevSecOps".

[@maxfrischdev]

(only at about 9.5minutes in so far) Up to now it sounds like the "Ops" in Devops has become too complex as BOTH Dev and Ops got more and more complex over time so that we.. extract the Ops out again and call it Platform Engineer? 🤣😅

[@Alm-DevOps]

only downside I can mention in your videos is it is lean to open source products and trying to not mentioning main tools like in cicd area, less than 15% of market working with gitlab(it is open core not open source), but we continue hearing it's name in your videos, not the top tools.

[@manojkumar-jt3fw]

Looks like a DevOps guy now needs to have additional skills of U.I(Java Script) & DBMS knowledge , apart from Multi-Cloud DevSecOps skills ? Great.

[@user-yq8qw9yg6e]

basically greedy shareholders and CEOs who earn millions decided to reduce the amount of slaves and put them more work for less money so they can have a hole IT department on a 1 person. And if they can ,they will outsorce that person to pay even less. This will end badly