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Platform Engineering Certification Project

Prove your platform engineering skills by building multi-tenant isolation, compliance controls, a Backstage developer portal, and observability -- then verify it all works end to end.

120 minutes
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Lab Overview

This is your final certification lab -- a hands-on assessment of the platform engineering skills you have built throughout the bootcamp.

You will tackle four real-world scenarios that each require deploying and configuring real Kubernetes resources:

1. Multi-Tenant SaaS Platform -- Build namespace isolation, tiered resource quotas, network policies, and a Backstage Software Template for self-service tenant onboarding. 2. FinTech Compliance Platform -- Implement network segmentation, Kubernetes Secrets for sensitive data, RBAC for least-privilege access, and register payment services in a Backstage catalog with compliance metadata. 3. Developer Portal and Self-Service -- Deploy Backstage, populate a service catalog for a microservices e-commerce application, and create Software Templates that let developers provision new services through self-service. 4. Observability and Incident Response -- Deploy Prometheus and Grafana, configure alerting rules, build dashboards, and integrate observability links into Backstage catalog entities.

The final task verifies that every resource you built across all four scenarios is running correctly.

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What You'll Learn

Build multi-tenant namespace isolation with tiered resource quotas and network policies

Implement compliance controls using RBAC, network segmentation, and Kubernetes Secrets

Deploy Backstage and populate a software catalog with real platform services

Create Backstage Software Templates for self-service provisioning

Deploy Prometheus and Grafana with alerting rules and custom dashboards

Integrate observability metadata into Backstage catalog entities

Verify a complete platform deployment across all certification scenarios

Prerequisites

Completion of all Platform Engineering Bootcamp labs including the capstone

Familiarity with Backstage catalog entities and Software Templates

Kubernetes knowledge including namespaces, RBAC, network policies, and Helm

Understanding of Prometheus and Grafana for observability

Technologies Covered

certificationbackstagedeveloper-portalmulti-tenancykubernetesobservabilityprometheusgrafananetwork-policiessecuritycomplianceself-servicesoftware-templatesplatform-engineering

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