What Is a Platform Team and What Problems Do They Solve?

Platform teams are key to getting the maximum benefits from a cloud operating model.

In this whiteboarding session, HashiCorp Co-Founder Armon Dadgar, shows what platform teams do and the benefits they bring.

Organizations create platform teams to deliver standardized workflows, compliant golden images, and a system of record for cloud adoption across the company.

Platform engineers on the team deliver shared infrastructure, runtimes, and other services consumed by developers across the organization. Platform teams support this by delivering shared services across each layer of cloud infrastructure, helping product teams innovate and iterate at speed.

The HashiCorp suite of tools provides solutions for each layer of the cloud infrastructure to enable platform teams to successfully lead this shift to a cloud operating model.

0:00 – Introduction
0:36 – Cloud adoption phase 1 – multiple development teams
2:46 – Cloud adoption phase 2 – centralized platform teams
4:35 – Creating a common pipeline
10:00 – Standardized infrastructure provisioning
11:41 – Full stack with platform teams
12:17 – A layer cake of platform teams
14:23 – Cloud adoption phase 3 – bringing cloud approaches to on-premises infrastructure
15:17 – The platform team maturity curve