Awesome Platform Engineering

A curated list of tools and resources for Platform Engineering.

Contents

• Tooling— Development Portal and documentation

• Tooling— Microservices

• Tooling— Frontend

• Tooling— Feature flags, environments and change management

• Tooling— Infrastructure and Artifacts Management

• Tooling— Security and Policies

• Tooling— Kubernetes, PAAS and Cloud services

• Tooling— Service mesh, API Gateway and App Proxies

• Tooling— Testing and Metrics

• Tooling— Observability and Cost Optimization

• Tooling— Authentication and Authorization

• YouTube channels and Videos

• Articles

• Blogs and media platforms

• Newsletters, Chats and Podcasts

• Miscellaneous and Related

Tooling— Development Portal and documentation

• Backstage- open-source Internal Development Portal
• Docusaurus- create simple versioned doc sites
• MkDocs- documentation with Markdown
• API docs with Swagger- OpenAPI Specification
• Port- A No-Code Developer Portal
• Stoplight - API Design, Testing, and Documentation

Tooling— Microservices

• JHipster for microservices creation and integration at scale
• Create a service template in Backstage
• Waypoint: Create, build and Deploy apps across platform

Tooling— Frontend

• Storybook
• Radix UI- unstyled, accessible components
• daisyUI- Tailwind CSS based components
• Ant Design- An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library
• commander.js- nNode.js CLI development framework
• Capacitor- cross-platform web apps building framework
• Design Tokens Figma plugin- export Figma styles and custom tokens

Tooling— Feature flags, environments and change management

• OpenFeature - community-developed specification to standardise feature flag management
• Launchdarkly- feature flags paid service
• Git Guide: Generate A Changelog From Your Git Commit Messages
• Update NPM, pip, Gem etc. dependencies
• Upgrade microservices
• Upgrade JavaScript or TypeScript codebases
• Git Qovery: PR/Commit Preview Environments Platform (paid)
• Bunnyshell- production replica environments for dev, QA and Staging
• LocalStack- A fully functional local AWS cloud stack
• Gitpod- cloud development environments
• okteto- spin up dev and preview environments

Tooling— Infrastructure and Artifacts Management

• Terraformer- generate terraform files from existing infrastructure
• Terragrunt for deployment environments (dev/staging/prod) and other features
• Atlantis - Terraform Pull Request Automation
• Jenkins Pipelines as Code
• AWS Proton- Self-service infrastructure templates
• Artpie- open source artifact management alternative for Artifactory, Nexus etc.
• Verdaccio- a simple, zero-config npm registry
• Digger - Open Source Infratructure as Code management tool

Tooling— Security and Policies

• terrascan- detect compliance and security violations in IaC/Terraform
• tfsec- Terraform code security scanner
• KICS by Checkmarx- detect security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations
• Semgrep security simple static analysis
• Checkov Policy-as-code
• kube-bench checks whether Kubernetes security is aording to CIS K8S Benchmark
• Terraform Guardrails with OPA
• Secure the software supply chain for OPA policies

Tooling— Kubernetes, PAAS and Cloud services

• Dokku- Open source PAAS alternative to Heroku
• Crossplane- control plane framework using K8s custom resources
• KubeVela- create cloud resources using K8s customer resources
• OpenFaaS- deploy serverless functions and existing code to Kubernetes
• Portainer- container management for K8S and more
• Argonaut - Deploy apps and infrastructure to your cloud
• KusionStack- Open Tech Stack to build Internal Developer Platform
• Radius - Cloud-native application platform

Tooling— Service mesh, API Gateway and App Proxies

• Istio- open source service mesh
• Kong- API Gateway and Service Connectivity Platform
• Traefik- Cloud Native Application Proxy

Tooling— Testing and Metrics

• SonarQube- continuous code quality inspection
• k6- performance/load testing tool
• ddosify- performance testing platform
• Awesome Test Automation- a list of test automation frameworks, tools etc.
• Swarmia- tools to gather and improve engineering and DORA metrics
• Hydra Lab: build your intelligent cloud testing system

Tooling— Observability and Cost Optimization

• Netdata- Open-source infrastructure monitoring
• Jaeger CNCF- a Distributed Tracing Platform
• Fluentd CNCF: Unified Logging Layer
• Sentry- error monitoring
• Infracost- cost estimates for Terraform
• OpenCost — open source cost monitoring tool for Kubernetes
• Apache SkyWalking — Application Performance Monitoring
• SigNoz- an open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc.
• Loki - low cost open source logging; self-hosted or SaaS

Tooling— Authentication and Authorization

• CAS- Central Authentication Service
• Casdoor- IAM/SSO platform with web UI
• SuperTokens- Open Source User Authentication
• Ory Keto- Open-source implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Authorization System"
• Topaz- Combining the best of OPA and Zanzibar
• Permify- open-source authorization service

YouTube channels and Videos

• Platform Engineering
• Team Topologies Platform Engineering Bundle
• DevOps Is Dead! Long Live Platform Engineering! Did We Get Confused?
• Platform as a Product
• What is Platform Engineering ?
• Platform Engineering as a (Community)
• Simon Sinek: How to start a cultural transformation? - A brilliant video on how to find a pilot team and create a demand.
• Platform Engineering: Why and How to start
• Is Kubernetes Too Complicated? How About ClickOps With Qovery?
• GitHub as a Platform Engineering Platform

Articles

• What Is Platform Engineering? Role, Principles & Benefits
• How to Design an Internal Developer Platform
• A Platform Team Product Manager Determines DevOps Success
• Platform Engineering KPIs
• Platform Engineering: Creating your Internal Developer Platform
• The 10 Platform Engineering Tools To Use in 2022
• Platform Engineering at Palo Alto Networks
• Platform Engineering story from a CTO: WHY, WHAT, HOW
• Create Preview Environments with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Vercel
• Guide To Internal Developer Portals

Blogs and media platforms

• Platform Engineering
• Internal Developer Platform
• The New Stack
• Resources about Internal Platform teams and products
• Humanitec (Platform Engineering) Blog
• InfoQ Platform Engineering Articles
• Port Blog

Newsletters, Chats and Podcasts

• Platform weekly
• Platformengineering.org Slack
• What's Platform Engineering? And How Does It Support DevOps?
• The New Stack Podcast

Miscellaneous and Related

• Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
• Platformengineering.org tooling list
• Platform Engineering list
• The 12 Platform Challenges
• DevSecOps resources and tooling
• Architecture- Cloud Design Patterns