Welcome to my Platform Engineering blog

Introduction

Hello! I’m Fabio Luciano, a Platform Engineer with over 10 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud native, and developer experience. This blog is my space to share knowledge, experiences, and reflections on the fascinating world of Platform Engineering.

What you’ll find here

Kubernetes and Cloud Native

We’ll explore from basic concepts to advanced topics such as:

• Operators: How to create custom controllers with Kubebuilder
• Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd and when to use each
• Security: Pod Security Standards, Network Policies and RBAC

Platform Engineering

The heart of this blog. Topics include:

• Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs): Backstage, Port, Kratix
• Self-service: How to empower developers
• Platform as a Product: Treating the platform as a product

GitOps and IaC

Declarative and versioned infrastructure:

• ArgoCD and Flux: Comparisons and use cases
• Terraform and Crossplane: Traditional IaC vs Kubernetes-native
• Kustomize and Helm: Configuration management

Code example

Here’s an example of how to create a Kubernetes resource with TypeScript:

import * as k8s from '@kubernetes/client-node';

const kc = new k8s.KubeConfig();
kc.loadFromDefault();

const k8sApi = kc.makeApiClient(k8s.CoreV1Api);

async function createNamespace(name: string) {
  const namespace: k8s.V1Namespace = {
    metadata: {
      name: name,
      labels: {
        'managed-by': 'platform-team',
      },
    },
  };

  try {
    const response = await k8sApi.createNamespace(namespace);
    console.log(`Namespace ${name} created successfully`);
    return response.body;
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error creating namespace:', error);
    throw error;
  }
}

Next steps

In upcoming posts, we’ll dive into specific topics. Stay tuned for the series I’m preparing:

1. Kubernetes Operators from Scratch: A complete series on building operators
2. Platform Engineering in Practice: Real cases of IDP implementation
3. Cloud Native Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and more

Conclusion

This is just the beginning of a knowledge-sharing journey. I hope the content here is useful to you, whether you’re a curious beginner or a veteran looking for new perspectives.

See you in the next post!