For the time being, infrastructure as code drifted towards JSON/YAML-driven approach, but times are changing and the Platform Engineering emerging from the ashes of the old ways. This talk is about modern Terraform rivals and platform engineering concepts. Join me to get familiar with the principles of platform engineering and tools like Pulumi and Brainboard to build and deploy your infrastructure.

2. BIO
■ 17+ years in IT
■ Microsoft Azure MVP
■ Certified cloud architect
■ #MSUGODUA
■ Developer and mentor
■ Working @Solidify AB
■ Different perspective
■ Your friend and neighbour :)

3. The talk plan
■ Alternative view on the current basics from
architect/customer side.
■ Difference between small, medium and big companies and
trends there.
■ Why big companies trying to build Internal Developer
Platforms and removing Ops from Dev
■ Rise of shadow ops and projects without DevOps engineers
■ IaC for developers and architects

4. Escape from CNCF landscape…

5. The problem
■ Lack of trained DevOps/Platform engineers
■ Rise of Terraform coders
■ One engineer for 5-7 projects in consultancies
■ Developers writing IaC in native languages
■ Raise of AI & tools to generate infra & pipelines
■ Raise of Platform(product) engineering
■ Self service tooling for developer delivery needs
■ FAANG & co switching to the custom IDP

6. And another side

7. Що робити
з цим хайпом?

8. The root cause of PE
■ Developer productivity engineering
■ DPE aims to boost delivery speed
■ Reduce mean-time-to-resolution
(MTTR) for build and test failures
■ Retain talent by investing in
developer happiness :)
■ Providing serverless-like developer experience
■ Lack of control over Ops teams

9. DevOps as product team
■ Introduce product like approach for Ops
■ Building IDP via feature requests
■ Product manager controls delivery cadence
■ Dev teams decide what is good for them
■ Developer self service portal as artefact
■ Build of holistic approach instead of tools zoo
■ Clarify the team purpose as internal product
■ Delegate observability, containers to PE team

10. Go green

11. Internal Developer Platform
■ Infrastructure orchestration
■ Role-based action management
■ Application configuration management
■ Deployment management
■ Environment management
■ Observability and security
■ Less engineers to hire and train
■ GitHub, Zalando, Netflix, Google, etc..

12. PE tooling landscape

13. SRE role
■ Responsibilities stays the same
■ DevOps with night shifts & +100% salary
■ Incident management
■ Failure mitigation
■ Complex incident response automation
■ Fine tuning on-prem for OpenShift cluster
■ Removing the single points of failure
■ Boring root cause analysis

14. PORT as example

15. Platform engineer
■ Full stack superman
■ Can handle on-premises K8s clusters
■ Can handle front-end tasks
■ Doing GitOps and DevSecOps
■ Understand 3 levels of abstraction
deep down
■ Can choose wisely CNCF tooling :)
■ Earning +50 - 100% more

16. Do you customer need it?
■ It Depends :)
■ No, with mature engineering teams
■ No, with medium infra complexity
■ No, with team size up to 40 engineers
■ Yes, with complex infrastructure
■ Yes, with a lot of JS devs :)
■ Yes, in case of 10+ teams
Не вір мій син… (с)
Лесь подерв'янський

17. Чого бажає
DevOps?

18. DevOps dream life
■ 3 jobs with total 8 hours of work :)
■ Great night sleep
■ More new tools and automation
■ No alerts on prod environment
■ Dedicated SRE person
■ Ops without development
■ Favorite cloud with managed Kubernetes
■ Terraform and no config drift

19. Чого бажає
Dev?

20. Developer dream life
■ Two jobs with total 8 hours of work :)
■ No huge JSON and YAML scripts
■ Infras in a project language
■ Proper Unit/Integration tests
■ Git(Ops) for everything
■ Access to all environments
■ Tryout the fancy F# IaC via Farmer
■ Serverless first approach for everything

21. Pulumi in a nutshell
■ Team favorite language for infrastructure
■ C#, JS, TS, Python, Go)
■ All popular cloud providers support
■ Desired state configuration + state service
■ Proper unit testing
■ Dev portal for deployment status.
■ State service that contain deployed IaaS

22. How much? Cheaper than Engineer

23. CDK8S.io and ChatGPT

24. What
architects
like?

25. brainboard.co

26. How much? Cheaper than Engineer

27. So? It depends…
■ Big companies try to build IDP
■ Medium companies adopting DevOps
■ Small companies continue with Shadow Ops
■ DevOps engineers will work on several jobs
■ Product oriented Ops & Devs earn 50% more
■ Serverless containers will abstract Kubernetes
■ Happily ever after Ukraine victory

28. Thanks!
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