DevOps

Second post in the Azure Platform Engineering series. In Part 1, we built the provisioning layer of the Internal Developer Platform: Dev Center, Azure Deployment Environments, Bicep templates, and shared AKS runtime patterns. That is necessary, but it is not sufficient. An Internal Developer Platform becomes trustworthy when it enforces standards without turning into a bureaucratic cage. That is where governance, observability, and security enter the picture. The platform must make the right path easy, the risky path difficult, and the unsupported path visible. ...

First post in a two-part series on Platform Engineering on Azure. If your developers still need tickets, handoffs, or tribal knowledge to get a usable environment, your delivery system is slower than your codebase. Platform Engineering is how you fix that. The goal is not to hide infrastructure from developers. The goal is to package infrastructure, security, and observability into a self-service product developers can trust. On Azure, that means combining Microsoft Dev Center, Azure Deployment Environments, Bicep, and a shared runtime such as AKS. ...