Platform Engineering Monthly — March 2025

Welcome to the sixteenth edition of Platform Engineering Monthly! Suggestions or ideas for the next edition? Let me know!

📰 News

• You Can No Longer Base Your Government and Society on US Clouds With the recent political climate, a LOT of articles have popped up on people moving or advocating to move from US based Cloud Services.

• The 'Why Azure is Shit' Feed | Mastodon — At Day 420 (at time of writing), you have to respect that level of consistency in a product.

• IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp | IBM Newsroom — A big acquisition with potentially little fanfare. Is this IBM/Red Hat trying to scoop up ex-VMware users?

• “It’s Not Kubernetes. It’s What It Does.” | CNCF — The CNCF equivalent of ‘you're holding your phone wrong’.

• The Missing Piece in Platform Engineering: Recognising Producers | The New Stack — A fresh perspective on stakeholder roles in platform teams.

• Scaling Platform Building: Unique vs Common | CNCF — A thoughtful dive into balancing org-specific features with reusable platform components.

🦮 Tutorials / How-tos

• Zero-Downtime Deployments on AWS EKS | Glasskube — Best practices to minimise deployment disruption in EKS environments.

• Step-by-Step Guide to Kubernetes Troubleshooting | CNCF — A methodical approach to finding and fixing your K8s issues.

• Handling Billions of Invocations: AWS Lambda Best Practices | AWS — A deep dive into scaling serverless.

📁 Interesting Projects

• Yoke: IaC for Kubernetes | xeiaso.net — A new take on Infrastructure-as-Code, still early, but intriguing.

• Introducing K0rdent: Kubernetes IDPs Simplified | CNCF — Yet another stab at the golden path problem. Worth a look.

• Kubescape Graduates to CNCF Incubation | CNCF — Security visibility for Kubernetes continues to mature.

• Fly-to-Podman | GitHub — A migration tool from Docker apps to Podman. Niche but clever.

• Git-Who | GitHub — Tidy little CLI for figuring out who changed what. Basically git blame, but better.

📅 Events

• Open Source SecurityCon 2025 Announced | CNCF — Mark your calendar: November 10, 2025.

• Platform Engineering Day | KubeCon EU 2025 Co-located Event - April 1st, 2025

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe — London, April 1st–4th, 2025

  • What to do around the KubeCon London venue | CNCF Guide

• PlatformCon 2025 — June 23rd- June 27th — Still a ways off, but keep it in mind.

🎙️ Webinars

• Dollars and DevOps: The Business Case for Internal Developer Platforms
  Natan Yellin (Robusta.dev)
  📅 April 8, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM CET
  How to prove your platform's ROI.

• From Friction to Flow: Developer Experience with Coder & DX
  Nicky Pike & Justin Reock
  📅 April 15, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM CET
  Improving onboarding and reliability via better tooling.

• Backstage Backlash: What Went Wrong?
  Kaspar von Grünberg (Humanitec)
  📅 April 16, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM CET
  Lessons from failed platform launches.

• Platform Leadership 101: Why 67% of Platforms Fail
  Mallory Haigh, Platform Engineering Workshop Host
  📅 April 22, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM CET
  Common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

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