Infrastructure Platform Engineering

A book-shaped table of contents for infrastructure platform engineering: from infrastructure operations to self-service platforms, IaC foundations, Terraform/OpenTofu, cloud platform design, networking, identity, compute, storage, golden images, automation, governance, observability, reliability, enterprise platforms, anti-patterns, and MAANG interview prep — cross-linking existing sre/networks/kubernetes/patterns/internal-developer-platforms notes instead of duplicating them.

1 — Infrastructure as Code Principles

Covers the core IaC principles — declarative vs. imperative style, desired state, idempotency, drift management, and immutability.

2 — Infrastructure Lifecycle

Walks the full infrastructure lifecycle from planning and provisioning through configuration, operation, and retirement.

3 — State Management

Covers Terraform/OpenTofu state management — local vs. remote state, locking, securing state, and recovering from state corruption.

1 — From Infrastructure Operations to Infrastructure Platforms

Traces how infrastructure management evolved from ticket-driven operations into a product built by a platform team for internal infrastructure consumers.