Platform Engineering and more specifically Internal Developers Platform(IDP) has been a hot topic now for almost 2 years but can anyone define precisely what an IDP is ? Isn’t my Kubernetes cluster a platform already or isn’t GitHub also a developer platform ? Isn’t everything a platform ?

In fact, there is no single answer to this but what you can do is have an opinionated approach to define what an Internal Developer Platform is. In this mini-lab we will build from scratch a simple but a functional and opinionated IDP offering a GitOps approach, stream-lined self-services for developers and a portal.

Using well-known solutions like Kubernetes, ArgoCD and the Operator pattern we will learn how to assemble those different components together in a way that makes sense for the Platform Engineering paradigm.