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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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Index

A
AI
application, in platform engineering336, 337
challenges, solving336
integrating, with Ecosystem350 – 356
Admission Controller
deploying286 – 289
Agentic Systems
designing346 – 350
Documentation and Runbook Agent347
Observability Agent347
Platform Improvement Agent347
Remediation Agent346
Triage Agent346
Argo rollouts222
CI/CD workflow observability225
progressive delivery and rollbacks223, 224
ArgoCD
installation381
pitfalls382
Automatic Telemetry Ingestion110
build, versus buy tradeoff113, 114
ingestion method110 – 112
platform responsibility110
agents346
anomaly detection311
antipatterns
avoiding345, 346
app-dev60
app-prod environment
creating52
app-production60
application instrumentation
for observability143 – 147
apt (Linux) ...
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ISBN: 9781806380138