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World K7: Self-Driving

Platform engineering and Backstage

You will learn: how a platform team turns everything you learned into a ready, paved path.

Checked with Kubernetes 1.37 on 31 Oct 2026

The problem

Ten teams want a new app on Kubernetes. Each must learn Dockerfiles, pipelines, YAML and Argo CD first. That takes months. What could help?

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That ready, paved road is a golden path: The ready, paved road to build and ship an app at your company.. A platform engineer: Builds a self-service counter, so other teams get a ready kitchen in minutes. builds it.

Try it

Backstage: An open-source developer portal: one place for every app, its owner, its docs and its templates. is an open-source developer portal. Match each need to its part.

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        Swipe: good platform habit or not?

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        Make the easy way the safe way.

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        A Backstage template creates a new app. Where should it write the app’s Argo CD setup?

        You did it!

        You can now explain platform engineering and golden paths.

        Go deeper (optional)

        Where the story breaks: a real order board is wiped every night. Git keeps every order forever, so you can always go back. And the GitOps helper is not a person. It never gets tired, and it never improvises. Real rep (optional): try the Backstage demo site. Then read the CNCF platforms white paper.