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Your Platform Engineering Toolkit for Terraform and Beyond

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Building a platform engineering toolkit tailored to your organization’s unique needs is a formidable challenge, whether you’re starting from scratch or piecing together existing materials and processes.

What’s in your toolkit? Most platform engineering teams start by creating a toolkit of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules to simplify and accelerate the deployment process. By providing a foundational set of resources such as APIs, key-value stores, topics, queues, schedules, secrets, storage and services/handlers, the platform allows developers to start quickly. Tools like Terraform and Docker have achieved widespread success due to their ability to provide consistent infrastructure provisioning and containerization, respectively.

Where do you go from there? Your IaC module toolkit may include core resources, but it also needs to be extensible and support new resources easily, essentially maintaining flexibility as applications grow. Plus, to effectively use all of these tools in your platform, you need a powerful deployment engine capable of orchestrating your tooling to ensure consistent and secure infrastructure for all your projects.