Golden path
A golden path is a recommended and supported workflow that guides developers through a standardized route for accomplishing software-development or delivery tasks.
Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
A paved road is a recommended, supported software-delivery path that provides developers with a convenient default implementation route.
- How it is used
- Provides a supported route for common software-delivery tasks, especially creating applications and reaching production.
- How deep it goes
- Defines a path as an automated or documented recipe and illustrates its workflow, without providing implementation code.
- Examples
- Uses a neobank’s CLI-provisioned microservices and La Redoute’s self-service pipelines, secrets, configuration, and operational foundations.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via an internal developer platform to make application setup and deployment self-service while retaining production requirements.
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
A golden path is a recommended, supported route for validating and delivering software changes to production.
- How it is used
- Structures platform workflows that validate application changes and deliver them safely to production.
- How deep it goes
- Connects service and environment pipelines, GitOps, validation, and visibility, but stops short of detailing a complete pipeline configuration.
- Examples
- Uses container artifacts, configuration packages, production clusters, coordinated pipelines, and release-promotion diagrams.
- What you can do after
- Operate supported environment workflows without needing to understand their underlying platform tools or configuration.
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Related concepts
- engineering platform teamproduced by · An engineering platform team is an organizational team that builds, operates, and evolves internal platforms providing shared capabilities for software development and delivery.
- internal developer platformused by · An internal developer platform is an organization-provided system of self-service interfaces, automation, abstractions, and reusable capabilities that supports software development and operation.
- pipelinehas part · A pipeline is an ordered or coordinated sequence of connected processing stages or tasks that passes data, work, or results toward an outcome.
- deployment pipelineimplemented by · A sequence of automated or manual stages that builds, tests or validates, packages, and delivers software or models toward deployment.
- environment pipelineimplemented by · An environment pipeline is an automated workflow that promotes application versions through environments for testing, validation, and deployment.
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