Posts tagged with #platform-engineering
- $ open OpenCode Part 1: A Terminal AI Agent You Actually Control ↗
OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent with provider flexibility, cross-repo context, and per-session cost tracking. Here's how to set it up and why GitHub's pricing changes make it worth a look.
- $ open GitHub's Agentic Workflows ↗
GitHub Agentic Workflows let you describe repo tasks in plain Markdown and have a coding agent run them on a schedule. Here's how they work and what you can do with them.
- $ open Platform AI Part 4: Building a Claude Code Plugin to Develop the AI Itself ↗
How I built a Claude Code skill that turns my IDE into a multi-agent development studio for building, debugging, and shipping features on my AI DevOps assistant.
- $ open Platform AI Part 3: Building a Multi-Agent System for DevOps ↗
How I turned a single chatbot into a team of specialized AI agents that route requests, hand off between each other, and investigate Kubernetes issues through structured workflows.
- $ open Platform AI Part 2: Adding Agentic Tool Use for AKS Management ↗
Building an AI assistant with Claude that can actually manage Kubernetes clusters - checking status, starting and stopping AKS, and handling Crossplane webhooks automatically.
- $ open Building Golden Paths with Backstage: Part 3 - Production from Day One ↗
Why separate promotion workflows are unnecessary: building production infrastructure into your golden path template from the start with optional toggles.
- $ open Adding Auth0 Authentication to Backstage: A Complete Guide ↗
Step-by-step guide to implementing Auth0 OAuth authentication in Backstage, replacing insecure guest authentication with proper identity management for both local development and production Kubernetes deployments.
- $ open Building Golden Paths with Backstage: Part 2 - Preview Environments ↗
Automatic ephemeral environments for every pull request: Istio multi-cluster routing, cross-cluster communication, and GitOps-driven preview deployments.
- $ open Building Golden Paths with Backstage: Part 1 - Foundation ↗
Building a working golden path from concept to production: shared development clusters, namespace isolation, and end-to-end GitOps deployment with Backstage.
- $ open Platform Engineering Golden Paths: Common Patterns ↗
Examining the three-tier abstraction model, progressive disclosure, and environment lifecycle patterns that appear across platform engineering implementations.
- $ open Repo-Local AI Governance: Why We Need a Standard for Constraining AI Agents ↗
AI coding assistants are becoming autonomous agents that modify code, run commands, and make architectural decisions. But there's no standard way to tell them what they shouldn't do. Here's a proposal.
- $ open Golden Paths, Day-2 Operations, and Where the Abstractions Crack ↗
Golden paths get attention for service creation. The harder problem is day-2 operations—where reality shows up.
- $ open Building the ARM Service Portal: A Self-Service Platform for Azure Infrastructure ↗
A deep dive into building a self-service portal that lets developers provision Azure resources through blueprints, while Terraform and GitOps handle everything behind the scenes.