Build Your Own Developer Platform in 90 Minutes Using Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Backstage
summary
A developer platform is provisioned from scratch: a DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster created with Pulumi + DigitalOcean, ArgoCD installed as the GitOps engine, Backstage deployed as the developer UI, a Postgres instance via the operator, and Sealed Secrets for encrypted repo secrets. An example “user API” is pushed, ArgoCD syncs and Backstage surfaces Kubernetes and Argo status — everything deploys successfully during the 90‑minute workshop and is torn down with pulumi destroy; prereqs and scripts live in the provided gist.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro & Agenda
- 1:47What is Platform Engineering?
- 5:49Prerequisites
- 7:40Create a K8s Cluster
- 8:14What is Pulumi?
- 15:50Setup ArgoCD
- 16:40What is GitOps?
- 21:31Deploy Backstage
- 28:01What is Backstage?
- 36:30Deploy Your First App
- 36:41Houskeeping
- 38:16Recap
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