Platform Engineering on EKS

Development teams often struggle with inconsistent tooling and complex provisioning processes. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) defines a platform as "an integrated collection of capabilities defined and presented according to the needs of the platform's users" — in short, a unified layer that brings together the services and tools applications need, with a simple experience through web portals, templates, and APIs.

Platform Engineering on EKS is a hands-on workshop that shows you how to build an internal developer platform (IDP) with developer self-service at its core. You'll set up a unified developer portal with Backstage, use ACK and KRO for standardized infrastructure-as-code provisioning of AWS resources, and explore practical patterns for namespace-as-a-service workflows, policy-as-code, and GitOps — all on Amazon EKS.