Build Your First Platform Path

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 1. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

• Week 1: DevOps & Platform Engineering Overview (slug: devops-platform-engineering-overview)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place.

You just read about the DevOps toolchain in the lessons. Now you'll DO a tiny end-to-end slice of it. This is a guided taste, not a deep dive: every command is given to you, and you'll go deep on each of these tools (Git, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes) in the weeks ahead. The simple web app you containerize here is a stand-in for TaskFlow, the real application you'll build across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

You'll touch one representative tool per layer and watch each layer hand off to the next, assembling a tiny but complete "platform path" you can run and observe on the VM:

• Version control: git a small app and commit it
• Containers: write a Dockerfile, build an image from your source, run it
• Infrastructure as Code: write real Terraform that runs your image as a managed container
• Orchestration (a first taste): scale that container to multiple replicas declaratively
• Observability: inspect logs, stats, and Terraform state, the record of what is running

By the end of this lab, you'll understand:

• The major layers of a platform engineering stack and the order they connect in
• How source code becomes a container image, and a container image becomes managed infrastructure
• Why Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) gives you a declarative, repeatable record of what is running
• What "the handoff between layers" actually looks like in commands and real output