Platform Engineering
Course Index
28 Lessons · 3 Sections
Master Platform Engineering — the discipline of building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) that give developers self-service golden paths. Covers Backstage, Crossplane, DORA metrics, DevEx, Humanitec & AI-powered platforms 2026. Includes 4 builds: Backstage portal, Terraform module catalog, DORA metrics dashboard & golden path CI/CD.
28Lessons
3Sections
4Projects
FreeAccess
Section 1Platform Engineering FundamentalsLessons 1–10
Lesson 1
What is Platform Engineering?
Lesson 2
Internal Developer Platform (IDP): Why & What
Lesson 3
Platform Engineering vs DevOps vs SRE
Lesson 4
Golden Paths: Paved Roads for Developers
Lesson 5
Developer Portals: Backstage Architecture
Lesson 6
Backstage: Plugins, Catalog & TechDocs
Lesson 7
Service Catalog & Software Templates
Lesson 8
Self-Service Infrastructure with Terraform & Crossplane
Lesson 9
Crossplane: Kubernetes-Native IaC
Lesson 10
CI/CD Abstraction: Platform-Level Pipelines
Section 2DevEx, Metrics & AdvancedLessons 11–22
Lesson 11
Developer Experience (DevEx): Measuring & Improving
Lesson 12
DORA Metrics: Measuring Platform Success
Lesson 13
Platform Observability: Instrumenting IDPs
Lesson 14
Kubernetes as a Platform Foundation
Lesson 15
Environment Management: Dev, Staging & Prod
Lesson 16
Secrets Management for Platforms
Lesson 17
Platform Security & Policy Enforcement
Lesson 18
Platform Cost Management & Showback
Lesson 19
Multi-Tenancy in Platform Engineering
Lesson 20
Port & Cortex: Alternative Portal Platforms
Lesson 21
Humanitec: Platform Orchestration
Lesson 22
Platform Engineering in 2026: AI & Trends
Section 3Anti-Patterns, Team Structure & ProjectsLessons 23–28