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The Platform Engineer's Handbook
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The Platform Engineer's Handbook

by Ajay Chankramath
May 2026
Intermediate
446 pages
10h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Securing Platform Access

With a platform runtime in place that has a service mesh configured for NewTech developers to use, Maria is facing pressure from her technical product owner to have teams start deploying to it. Only a few teams are asking to deploy to it due to past problems they've faced in managing their own infrastructure. However, business leaders are looking to realize some value for the organization as quickly as possible from their investment in the platform team Maria is running. However, the platform team feels like they've barely started building it, so they're nervous that it's not ready for real usage and are asking Maria to push back. To meet in the middle, she suggests that the TPO implement some permissioning to protect ...

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