EulerFoldAWS Platform Engineering From Scratch: CI/CD, Security, IaC, and Observability
AWS Platform Engineering From Scratch: CI/CD, Security, IaC, and Observability
“This roadmap turns basic programming knowledge into a production-minded AWS platform skillset through one cumulative project: a self-service deployment platform for multiple product teams. It prioritizes Terraform, GitHub Actions, containers, ECS/EKS concepts, IAM least privilege, quality gates, cost controls, and observability because those are the JD's highest-leverage responsibilities.”
Linux, Networking, and AWS Foundations for Platform Engineers
You can operate confidently in a Linux shell and explain the AWS primitives behind secure production deployments.
Dockerized Services and Container Runtime Hardening
You can package a service as a secure, reproducible container image ready for CI and cloud deployment.
Terraform AWS Platform Modules and Environment Isolation
You can provision repeatable AWS environments with Terraform modules, remote state, and environment separation.
GitHub Actions CI, Quality Gates, and Deployment Automation
You can design a golden-path pipeline that builds, tests, scans, and deploys services without manual ops intervention.
ECS Fargate Deployment Platform with RDS and Load Balancing
You can run a containerized service on ECS Fargate with private networking, managed storage, blue-green-style promotion, and safe rollback.
Security Baseline: IAM, Secrets, Guardrails, and Supply Chain Controls
You can define a security baseline that prevents common cloud and CI/CD failures before product teams ship.
Observability, SLOs, Alerting, and Lightweight On-Call
You can instrument services so teams detect user-impacting failures through logs, metrics, traces, and actionable alerts.
Kubernetes Control Plane Literacy and EKS Guardrails
You can evaluate when EKS is appropriate and apply baseline Kubernetes controls without overbuilding the platform prematurely.
Cost Control, Self-Service Templates, and Production Readiness
You can package the platform as a paved road that lets six engineers ship safely while budgets, alerts, and guardrails remain visible.
References
Week 1: Linux, Networking, and AWS Foundations for Platform Engineers
Week 2: Dockerized Services and Container Runtime Hardening
Week 3: Terraform AWS Platform Modules and Environment Isolation
Week 4: GitHub Actions CI, Quality Gates, and Deployment Automation
Week 5: ECS Fargate Deployment Platform with RDS and Load Balancing
Week 6: Security Baseline: IAM, Secrets, Guardrails, and Supply Chain Controls
Week 7: Observability, SLOs, Alerting, and Lightweight On-Call
Week 8: Kubernetes Control Plane Literacy and EKS Guardrails
Week 9: Cost Control, Self-Service Templates, and Production Readiness
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