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Platform Engineering Playground

A sandbox environment for experimenting with Internal Developer Platforms, GitOps, and infrastructure automation.

180 minutes
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Lab Overview

A comprehensive sandbox to explore modern platform engineering concepts including Backstage (Internal Developer Portal), Crossplane (Infrastructure as Code), ArgoCD (GitOps), and cloud-native infrastructure automation. Use this lab to experiment with building complete Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), GitOps workflows, software catalogs, and developer self-service patterns in a safe and controlled environment with Kubernetes and AWS.

Technologies Covered

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