Platform Engineering Monthly — January 2025
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!
📰 News
Kubernetes in 2025: are you ready for these top 5 trends and predictions? | CNCF — Predictions include increased adoption of AI/ML, edge computing, and tools like Karpenter to boost cluster efficiency.
Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier? - mattsayar.com — Some interesting theories on why Pages are unlimited—worth checking out!
Steve Langasek, One of Ubuntu Linux's Leading Lights, Has Died - The New Stack — Mark Shuttleworth wrote a lovely piece on him here.
Quickwit joins Datadog | Quickwit — The announcement suggests Quickwit's existing product will remain liberally licenced, while the team focuses on internal Datadog projects—though this is completely speculative!
📅 Events
Reminder! KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe | LF Events — April 1-4, 2025 in London
Including Platform Engineering Day - Europe — April 1, 2025 in London
FOSDEM 2025 — February 1-2, 2025 in Brussels
🎙️ Webinars
Minimum Viable Platform: Zero to hero — February 4, 2025
Mastering on-prem platform engineering: The good, the bad, the metal — February 11, 2025
Platform engineering metrics: The art of Kaizen with Platforms — February 18, 2025
How enterprises drive successful platform engineering initiatives — February 19, 2025
🦮 Tutorials / How-tos
So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? — This is a really nice guide on how to write K8s controllers and what to consider when building them.
Getting exec buy-in for developer productivity initiatives — No surprise, executive buy-in often hinges on ROI, making this guide a great read for getting started.
📁 Interesting Projects
GitHub - terrateamio/terrateam — Terrateam simplifies infrastructure automation by integrating GitOps with CI/CD workflows.
GitHub - zawachte/etcd-k8s-extract: etcd-k8s-extract — A tool to extract Kubernetes resources as YAML directly from etcd snapshots, simplifying backup and restore workflows.
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