7-Day Platform Engineering Crash Course

Free 7-day email course: learn the tools, patterns, and career path to break into platform engineering. Start today.

What You'll Learn

Get one email a day for 7 days. Each one covers a core platform engineering skill: with hands-on actions, not just theory.

Day 1: What is Platform Engineering?: The role, the market, and why Gartner says 80% of large orgs will have a platform team by 2026.

Day 2: Infrastructure as Code: Terraform fundamentals, state files, the plan/apply workflow.

Day 3: Containers & Kubernetes: Docker, pods, deployments, services, and the platform engineer's K8s stack.

Day 4: Policy as Code: OPA and HashiCorp Sentinel, enforcing guardrails, preventing misconfigurations before they deploy.

Day 5: CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and the automated delivery pipeline.

Day 6: Observability & Security: Prometheus, Grafana, OPA, Sentinel. What happens after you deploy.

Day 7: Building Your IDP: Backstage, golden paths, and your 6-month platform engineering career roadmap.

Who This Is For

  • DevOps engineers who want to move into platform engineering
  • Software developers curious about the infrastructure side
  • SREs looking to build self-service platforms
  • Anyone who wants to understand the $150K+ platform engineering career path

How It Works

  1. Sign up below
  2. Day 1 lands in your inbox immediately
  3. One email per day for 7 days
  4. Each email has a 5-10 minute hands-on action: real CLI commands, real tools