Definition
Infrastructure Platform Engineering (IPE) is a structured discipline that builds and manages internal infrastructure platforms as products, enabling autonomous, secure, and scalable delivery of infrastructure services across hybrid environments. IPE operationalizes infrastructure as a reusable, governed service by embedding policy, cost, security, and lifecycle controls directly into infrastructure provisioning and operation processes.
Why It Matters
IPE emerged as a response to the shortcomings of traditional infrastructure management and the limitations of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approaches. While IaC enabled automation, it introduced complexity, fragmentation, and governance challenges as cloud environments grew in scale and heterogeneity. IPE addresses these gaps by centralizing infrastructure logic, democratizing access, and shifting governance upstream to pre-provisioning.
Core Capabilities
- Self-Service Provisioning: Role-based catalogs that allow developers and operators to deploy environments without manual intervention.
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