Platform engineering is not about building more abstractions. It is about reducing toil. And nothing reduces toil like a folder full of buttons (that you can git grep ).
# tools/find-orphaned-volumes #!/bin/bash # Lists PVCs not attached to a running pod kubectl get pvc --all-namespaces -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select(.status.phase=="Lost") | .metadata.name' Stop asking devs to install 14 different CLIs. platform tools folder
Every platform engineering team starts the same way. You build a beautiful internal developer portal (IDP), write some Terraform modules, and set up a few CI pipelines. But six months later, you hit the wall . Platform engineering is not about building more abstractions
What is the most useful script in your team's tools/ folder? Let me know in the comments below. # tools/find-orphaned-volumes #
make db-failover Instead of: Finding the wiki, clicking three links, copying a broken command, and crying. My team used to spend 2 hours every Monday morning cleaning up stale environments. One person ran kubectl get ns , another ran a Python script locally, and a third manually deleted ECR images.