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Platform Engineering Tools Landscape

Create a comprehensive visual map of the platform engineering tool ecosystem to understand the landscape before diving into individual tools.

240 minutes
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Lab Overview

🛠 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. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

In this research-focused lab, you'll explore the vast ecosystem of platform engineering tools and create a visual map categorizing them by purpose. You'll research 40+ tools across different categories like CI/CD, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, monitoring, and more.

This lab helps you understand the big picture of platform engineering tooling before diving into specific technologies. You'll learn how different tools complement each other and where they fit in the overall platform architecture.

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

  • The major categories of platform engineering tools
  • Popular tools in each category and their use cases
  • How different tools integrate and complement each other
  • The modern platform engineering tool landscape

What You'll Learn

Identify and categorize 40+ platform engineering tools across the major tool categories

Explain the primary use case and key features of tools in each category

Map how different tool categories integrate in a complete platform engineering stack

Get hands-on experience with Docker and Terraform CLI as foundational platform tools

Prerequisites

basic understanding of software development concepts

curiosity about platform engineering tools

Technologies Covered

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