Skip to Content
The Platform Engineer's Handbook
book

The Platform Engineer's Handbook

by Ajay Chankramath
May 2026
Intermediate
446 pages
10h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from The Platform Engineer's Handbook

10

Publishing Starter Kits

In the previous chapters, we built the components necessary to deploy full-stack applications: CI/CD pipelines compose reusable tasks, infrastructure blueprints provision databases and caches, and the developer portal provides a unified interface. Now, another problem shows up.

Every time a team starts a new microservice, they spend the first two weeks copying code from existing projects, adapting configurations, and debugging CI/CD pipelines. Last quarter, three teams independently wasted their first sprint on boilerplate. One team copied a project that was two versions behind on security patches. Another copied from a prototype that was never meant for production. By the time they deployed their first feature, they ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Decoding Platform Engineering Patterns: A Strategic Guide to Building, Scaling, and Succeeding with Platforms

Decoding Platform Engineering Patterns: A Strategic Guide to Building, Scaling, and Succeeding with Platforms

Shweta Vohra
Mastering Enterprise Platform Engineering

Mastering Enterprise Platform Engineering

Mark Peters, Gautham Pallapa

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781806380138