[Platform Engineering] Blog #1 "Pulumi Patterns and Practices (P3): A Pulumi-based reference architecture for large-scale organizations" #12414
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| Pulumi can help bring consistency to your software catalog by encoding design patterns into reusable *[component resources](https://www.pulumi.com/learn/abstraction-encapsulation/component-resources/)* and by building custom *[organization templates](https://www.pulumi.com/docs/pulumi-cloud/developer-portals/templates/)* that provide a no-code or low-code way to start a new project. Templates help get projects off the ground faster and ensure consistent code structure, policy compliance, and best practices. | ||
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This looks like video of an older version of NPW.
So you'll want to use an updated video.
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| There are quite a few listicles out there professing to authoritatively tell you the 5, or 7, or 11 essential components of an internal developer platform. Personally, I trust our customers to tell us, and here's what they have said they need: | ||
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| **Consistency:** Bring some order to the chaos. As your company and your infrastructure grows, it gets more and more complicated to maintain consistency. You might already have established design patterns that you want to replicate, but don't have any way to encode those practices in your current tools. There's a lot of copy/paste of reusable blocks, but no way to apply [DRY principles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself) or to modularize/templatize the important parts (hint: all the parts are important!). |
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Based on this amazing list...
I think we should either update this https://www.pulumi.com/what-is/what-is-platform-engineering/ or create a brand new page called "What is an internal developer platform". I like your points, they are slightly similar to the requirements of that page, but more colloquial in how they are written.
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| We have an idea of how you can use all the Pulumi products together to deliver a comprehensive internal platform for security, infrastructure management, and deployments. Call it an internal platform for developer platform engineers (IPfDPE), if you want. We call it the realization of a vision we've been working hard to build for many years. | ||
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| The **Platypus Platform** is a reference architecture that we will be describing, and providing code for, through this series of articles. We'll be diving deep into not just what you can do with our tools, but how to do it, and provide code for a reference implementation that you can use to jump start the process. |
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Should we just call it the "Platyform" as shorthand? otherwise Platypus Platform gets a bit long in how its written
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i decided to just called it Platypus, and refer to it as a "reference architecture for a Pulumi-based internal developer platform".
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Naming seems to still be an open question here.
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Going with Pulumi Patterns and Practices (P3).
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Pushing out as-is and will update the video later today when we have images available (deadlines!).
First of a series of blog posts about Pulumi Patterns and Practices (P3) reference architecture (a rebranded version of internal demo Pequod).