07 — Cost & Governance
Keeping the platform affordable and well-governed: budgets, cardinality, vendors.
Contents
- Ingest Budget by Team
- Cardinality Governance
- Toil Budget Policy
- Vendor Registry
- Integration Specifications
- Monthly Cost Reports
Conventions
- kebab-case filenames; human-readable name in each page’s
title:/ H1. scope: platform— ShipSolid platform content.- Stubs are greppable:
[stub: <name>].
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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.
ShipSolid Observability Platform
Documentation hub for the **ShipSolid observability platform** — Grafana Cloud (Mimir / Loki /
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Cardinality Governance
How the platform governs cardinality — the primary cost and stability risk.
Ingest Budget by Team
Ingest budget allocation per team and current consumption.
Integration Specifications
Specifications for integrations between the platform and external systems (IRM, BigPanda, SNOW,
Monthly Cost Reports
Monthly observability cost reports.