A Tool Is Not a Platform (And Your Team Knows the Difference)
Most infrastructure teams have a moment where someone says "we should build a platform." The motivation is real: teams are duplicating work, the current setup is hard to use consistently, and a more structured approach would help. A few months later, the platform is a Terraform module collection, a GitLab CI template, a shared repository of scripts, and a README that several people have tried to keep current.
That is a useful thing. It is not a platform.
The distinction is worth being clear about, not to dismiss the work, but because the word "platform" creates expectations. When internal teams hear "we have a platform," they assume stability, a usable interface, a versioning model, and some mechanism for raising problems when things break. A toolchain with documentation does not deliver those things by default.
What Makes Something a Platform
A platform is defined by its contract, not its technology. The...
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