Breaking down the principles of platform engineering
summary
Shows how a Backstage-driven template pipeline actually creates two GitHub repos (code and GitOps), builds a container with Tekton, publishes it to the registry, and Argo CD syncs Helm manifests into a Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster to run a Flask service that queries a Stable Diffusion model served by KServe/Model Mesh. Demo uses DreamBooth fine‑tuning from 15 images, produces a working “Teddy on the moon” image, and highlights security integrations like sigstore plus an ecosystem of 190+ Backstage plugins for observability and policy.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Platform engineering principles
- 6:45Developer challenges in cloud native
- 10:37Platform as a product
- 14:33Internal developer portals with Backstage
- 19:53Live demo: Backstage
- 28:23Security and adoption strategies
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