The Platform Engineer's Handbook: Build secure, developer-focused platforms that streamline modern software delivery (Paperback or Softback)
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing 5/28/2026, 2026
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The Platform Engineer's Handbook: Build secure, developer-focused platforms that streamline modern software delivery.
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- Title
- The Platform Engineer's Handbook: Build secure, developer-focused platforms that streamline modern software delivery (Paperback or Softback)
- Author
- Chankramath, Ajay
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing 5/28/2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback or Softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1806380137
- ISBN 13
- 9781806380138
- Item weight
- 1.68 pounds
Deliver developer-friendly infrastructure with automation, AI acceleration, and real-world platform patterns all built from scratch on your laptop
Key Features
- Hands-on guide to designing, deploying, and evolving engineering platforms with real-world patterns
- Focus on developer experience, enabling self-service, scalability, and AI augmentation from day one
- Built for practitioners offering step-by-step, practical knowledge for shaping modern delivery
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
The Platform Engineer’s Handbook equips senior engineers and DevOps professionals to deliver developer-friendly infrastructure with automation, speed, AI acceleration, and intelligence. Starting with a blank slate, you’ll build a complete, modern platform that runs locally on your laptop, learning real-world patterns as you go.
In this handbook, you’ll follow a structured, progressive journey, beginning with source control governance and branching strategies, then deploying a Kubernetes-based runtime, embedding observability, and securing platform access. You’ll implement self-service onboarding, CI/CD as a service, and developer portals with Backstage. Later chapters introduce infrastructure blueprints, policy as code, FinOps observability, and AI-augmented platform services such as agent-based onboarding and copilots for pipeline creation.
Each chapter combines core concepts, lab-based exercises, and production-ready best practices to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter. By the end, you'll have a working MVP platform and the skills to adapt and scale it for your team or organization.
What you will learn
- Build a scalable, developer-focused engineering platform MVP
- Enable self-service onboarding and app deployment
- Create golden paths with reusable CI/CD workflows
- Scaffold new projects with portal-based starter kits
- Automate secure access with OAuth and RBAC
- Publish services to a centralized developer portal
- Deliver platform features with AI-augmented tooling
- Scale platform services without disrupting users
Who this book is for
This book is intended for intermediate to senior software engineers and DevOps professionals with prior experience in cloud-native software development patterns and practices who are interested in learning how to build secure, scalable engineering platforms to accelerate software delivery and the why behind it.
Table of Contents
- Platform Engineering: Laying the Groundwork
- Scalable Platform Runtime with Kubernetes and Service Mesh
- Securing Platform Access
- Embedding Observability
- Evaluate the User Experience
- Accelerating DevEx: Deploying and Curating Your First Developer Portal
- Self-Service Platform Onboarding
- CI/CD as a Platform Service
- Self-Service Infrastructure Management
- Publishing Starter Kits
- Validating Compliance with Policy as Code
- Optimize Cost, Performance, and Scalability
- Resilience Automation
- Agentic and AI-Augmented Platforms
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About the Author
Ajay Chankramath is a global technology leader with nearly four decades of experience in software development, platform engineering, and AI-augmented software delivery. As Founder, CEO, and CTO of Platformetrics, he advises organizations on improving software delivery and engineering effectiveness. He also serves as CTO of Platform Engineering Consulting & Advisory, one of the world's largest platform engineering communities. Previously, he held leadership roles at Brillio, Thoughtworks, Oracle, Broadridge, and Xilinx, helping shape modern platform engineering practices. Ajay is the co-author of Effective Platform Engineering and Domain-Driven Platform Engineering, and is a sought-after speaker, instructor, and thought leader whose work continues to influence engineering organizations worldwide.
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