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 — Golden Images

Covers golden image pipelines — VM images, container base images, build pipelines, and image versioning.

3 — Environment Provisioning

Covers provisioning environments across the dev/test/staging/production spectrum, including ephemeral, on-demand environments.

4 — Environment Lifecycle Management

Covers environment lifecycle management — creation, updates, retirement, and cost control for provisioned environments.

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.