Platform Engineering on EKS

An immersive hands-on workshop exploring how to build and operate a production-ready Internal Developer Platform (IDP) on Amazon EKS. As organizations scale their engineering teams and application portfolios, platform engineering has emerged as a critical discipline for reducing cognitive load, accelerating delivery, and enabling developer self-service — without sacrificing governance or reliability.

What You'll Learn:

• Platform engineering fundamentals and Internal Developer Platform design principles
• Self-service infrastructure provisioning with AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) and KRO
• GitOps-based continuous deployment with Argo CD across multiple environments
• Polyglot application deployment with declarative infrastructure management
• Progressive delivery using canary deployments and automated quality gates with Argo Rollouts
• Multi-stage application orchestration with Kargo for automated dev-to-prod promotions
• Generative AI integration with Kiro for accelerating platform and infrastructure code development
• Measuring platform success with DORA metrics and observability best practices

Whether you're looking to build your first Internal Developer Platform to empower engineering teams with self-service capabilities, or optimize existing platform workflows with GitOps automation and progressive delivery, this workshop will provide you with best practices and hands-on experience using industry-leading open-source tools and frameworks.