#automation

13 notes across 3 topics

# Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Covers the API surface an infrastructure platform exposes to its consumers and to automation.

Covers designing self-service infrastructure provisioning — catalogs, request flows, and guardrails for developer-initiated provisioning.

Covers workflow automation for infrastructure operations — orchestrating multi-step provisioning and change processes.

Covers event-driven infrastructure automation — reacting to platform and cloud events to trigger provisioning actions.

Covers orchestration across the infrastructure platform's automation components, tying provisioning, policy, and workflow together.

Why every platform capability should be reachable by API first, with the portal UI as a client of that API rather than the source of truth.

Event-driven automation, reacting to catalog and provisioning events rather than polling, as the backbone of platform responsiveness.

Workflow engines for orchestrating multi-step platform operations (provision, configure, register, notify) with retries and visibility.

Orchestration patterns that coordinate multiple platform capabilities, catalog, templates, provisioning, access, into a single self-service action.

Infrastructure automation, Terraform/Crossplane-style provisioning, as the execution layer behind self-service infrastructure requests.

Policy-as-code automation (OPA/Kyverno-style admission and provisioning guardrails) that enforces governance without a manual approval queue.

The small, recurring, mechanical tasks worth scripting away entirely — the return on a day spent automating a five-minute weekly chore.

A file and folder scheme simple enough to survive six months of not thinking about it, built around retrieval, not categorization purity.