Effective Platform Engineering

7 Platform control plane foundations

This chapter covers

• Managing cloud account baseline settings
• Defining the transit network layer
• Separating customer identity
• Deploying the cloud service control plane

Previously, we started building the Epetech engineering platform by gathering the required resources. We also bootstrapped the initial pipeline, which manages the service accounts and roles that we will use in our infrastructure pipelines. We had to run the configuration from our laptops initially to create the service accounts and the role to manage permissions. But from this point on, both are now managed directly by the pipeline whenever we make changes to the repository. We began with the same developer tools we will provide our internal ...