Apr 7
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What happens when every team has a different path to production? You do not really have a platform. You have a collection of tools, inconsistent workflows, and growing operational drag. In this video, I walk through the Infrastructure & Delivery Plane inside my Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and explain why this layer is one of the most important foundations in Platform Engineering. This is the plane that defines how code moves from source to production, how infrastructure is provisioned and validated, how artifacts are managed, and how delivery becomes consistent enough to scale. 🛠️ GitOps Pro Templates: https://payhip.com/b/EqswQ I also walk through the tooling I am using in my own stack: 🛠️ GitLab for source control and CI 🛠️ Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code and configuration management 🛠️ Harbor as the container registry 🛠️ Argo CD for continuous delivery 🛠️ Spacelift as the infrastructure control plane But more importantly, this video is not really about tools. It is about operational maturity. I explain why I have intentionally kept this stack simple, why too many overlapping workflows create technical debt, and why standardization matters so much if you want an IDP to scale across teams. I also discuss how my GitOps Pro Templates help create a common starting point for CI pipelines so teams are not reinventing testing, validation, scanning, artifact handling, and release structure from scratch every time. If you are building an Internal Developer Platform, trying to improve developer experience without sacrificing governance, or thinking through how GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure delivery should fit together, this video should help. If you enjoy practical Platform Engineering content built from real-world design decisions inside a working #homelab and IDP, subscribe to the Virtual Elephant channel and follow along as this series continues into the security plane next. 📺 Watch the full series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpKr4_0p0jEoGsi8oInWKDg8qSiXKA4h 💡 Don’t forget to: ✅ Like this video if you find it helpful. ✅ Subscribe to the channel for more home lab, cloud-native tutorials and project showcases. ✅ Drop a comment with your thoughts or questions about the project. Chapters: 00:00 Why most internal platforms fail 00:28 Infrastructure & Delivery Plane explained 01:31 Building a delivery model that can scale 02:05 Operational maturity through simplicity 02:38 My Platform Engineering stack 03:46 Why tool sprawl creates operational drag 05:10 Standard pipelines and GitOps Pro Templates 07:38 How the full delivery workflow fits together 08:03 GitLab 08:33 Terraform + Ansible 09:43 Harbor 10:21 Argo CD 11:21 Spacelift 12:16 Standards, governance, and consistency 12:46 The backbone of platform maturity 13:36 Why developers need a reliable starting point 14:29 Predictable, governed, scalable delivery 14:55 Next up: the Security Plane 15:20 Subscribe for the rest of the series #PlatformEngineering #InternalDeveloperPlatform #IDP #GitOps #ArgoCD #GitLab #Terraform #Ansible #Harbor #Spacelift #CICD #DevOps #CloudEngineering #Kubernetes #DeveloperPlatform