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Platform Architecture and Setup

Design and implement a complete IDP foundation with Backstage, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Vault integration.

45 minutes
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 20. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 20: Building the Internal Developer Platform: Capstone Part 1 (slug: building-internal-developer-platform)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

Design and implement a complete Internal Developer Platform (IDP) foundation including Backstage, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Vault integration for self-service infrastructure.

What You'll Learn

Design and document an Internal Developer Platform architecture covering Backstage, ArgoCD, Crossplane, and Vault

Deploy Backstage as a developer portal and register a software component with a catalog entity descriptor

Configure ArgoCD to sync applications from a Git repository using GitOps principles

Integrate Vault with platform components to provide centralized secrets management for self-service infrastructure

Technologies Covered

idpplatform-engineeringbackstageargocd

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