Platform Engineering on Google Cloud

Platform engineering is an emerging practice in organizations to enable cross functional collaboration in order to deliver business value faster. It treats the internal groups; application developers, operators, security, infrastructure admins, etc. as customers and provides them the foundational platforms to accelerate their work. The key goals of platform engineering are providing everything as self-service, golden paths, improved collaboration, abstraction of technical complexities, all of which simplify the software development lifecycle, contributing towards delivering business values to consumers. Platform engineering is more effective in cloud computing as it helps realize the benefits possible on cloud like automation, security, productivity, faster time-to-market.

Overview

Google Cloud offers decomposable, elastic, secure, scalable and cost efficient tools built on the guiding principles of platform engineering. With a focus on developer experience and innovation coupled with practices like SRE embedded into the tools, they make a good place to begin your platform journey to empower the developers to enhance their experience and increase their productivity.

This repository contains a collection of guides, examples and design patterns spanning Google Cloud products and best in class OSS tools, which you can use to help build an internal developer platform.

For more information, see Platform Engineering on Google Cloud.

Resources

Design Patterns

• Platform Engineering: 5 Implemenation Myths
• Business continuity planning for CI/CD

Research papers and white papers

• Google Cloud ESG Strategic Guide: Discover the power of platform engineering
• Mastering Platform Engineering: Key Insights from Industry Experts

Guides and Building Blocks

Manage Developer Environments at Scale

• Backstage Plugin for Cloud Workstations

Self-service and Automation patterns

• Automatic password rotation

Run 3rd party CI/CD tools on Google Cloud infrastructure

• Host GitHub Actions Runners on GKE

Enterprise change management

• Integrate Cloud Deploy with enterprise change management systems

End-to-end Examples

• Enterprise Application Blueprint - Deploys an internal developer platform that enables cloud platform teams to provide a managed software development and delivery platform for their organization's application development groups. EAB builds upon the infrastructure foundation deployed using the Enterprise Foundation blueprint.
• Software Delivery Blueprint - An opinionated approach using platform engineering to improve software delivery, specifically for Infrastructure admins, Operators, Security specialists, and Application developers. It utilizes GitOps and self-service workflows to enable consistent infrastructure, automated security policies, and autonomous application deployment for developers.

Usage Disclaimer

Copy any code you need from this repository into your own project.

Warning: Do not depend directly on the samples in this repo. Breaking changes may be made at any time without warning.

Contributing changes

Entirely new samples are not accepted. Bug fixes are welcome, either as pull requests or as GitHub issues.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute.

Licensing

Copyright 2024 Google LLC Code in this repository is licensed under the Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.