Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches: 5. Policies

In the final installment of the "Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches" series, the focus is on implementing policies to ensure compliance with organizational standards within an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Octopus Deploy. Readers are guided through the process of applying a sample policy from a mock Git repository, which mandates a manual intervention step in deployment processes. The post demonstrates how to trigger and resolve a policy violation by deleting the manual intervention step from a project, leading to a failed deployment, and subsequently using the "Suggest a fix" feature to address the error. This hands-on approach illustrates how platform teams can enforce standards and maintain architectural decisions at scale, enhancing the traditional roles of CI servers. By the series' conclusion, participants have successfully built an IDP, leveraging the strong opinions of Platform Hub to support DevOps teams.

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