Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast

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The Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast is where AI meets open-source infrastructure knowledge—and you're part of the editorial process. Every episode is researched, scripted, and produced with AI, then reviewed by the community and published on GitHub for anyone to improve. Facing tool sprawl across 130+ platforms? Justifying PaaS costs to your CFO? Navigating the Shadow AI crisis hitting 85% of organizations? We tackle the messy realities of platform engineering that most content avoids, delivering data-backed insights and decision frameworks you can use Monday morning. Built for senior engineers, SREs, and DevOps practitioners with 5+ years in production, we dissect cloud economics, AI governance, infrastructure trade-offs, and career strategy—with the receipts to back it up. Think we got something wrong? Have better data? Open a pull request at platformengineeringplaybook.com. This is infrastructure podcasting as a living document, where the community keeps us honest and the content gets better with every contribution. Read the playbook at https://platformengineeringplaybook.com

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    Security Ops Specialty: The Underrated Skill Every Platform Engineer Needs in 2026

    Platform engineers who understand security operations—secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance automation—are commanding premium salaries in 2026. This episode breaks down the security ops specialty: what it includes, why organizations are desperate for it, and how to build these skills alongside your existing platform engineering expertise. In this episode: • Security ops specialty encompasses secrets management, vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code, and compliance automation • Organizations are struggling to find platform engineers with security depth—creating a supply-demand gap • The 2025 State of Secrets report shows 70% of organizations experienced a secrets-related incident • Key tools include HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, OPA/Gatekeeper, Falco, and SOPS • Building security skills alongside platform engineering creates a rare and valuable combination Perfect for senior platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers looking to level up their platform engineering skills. New episodes every week. Subscribe wherever you listen to stay current on platform engineering. Episode URL: https://platformengineering.org/podcasts/00075-security-ops-specialty-platform-engineers Duration: 19:05 Host: Alex and Jordan Category: Technology Subcategory: Software How-To Keywords: security ops, platform engineering, secrets management, HashiCorp Vault, vulnerability scanning, Trivy, OPA, Gatekeeper, Falco, compliance automation, DevSecOps, shift-left security, policy-as-code, SOPS, supply chain security

    19 Min.
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    FinOps 2026 for Platform Engineers: The Complete Skills Guide

    FinOps is becoming an essential skill for platform engineers in 2026. This episode provides a complete guide to the skills, certifications, and tools you need to add cloud cost management to your platform engineering toolkit. 📰 News Segment: • GPG.fail documents 14 critical GnuPG vulnerabilities - check your signing tools • MongoBleed CVE-2025-14847: Critical MongoDB exploit - patch immediately • The Dangers of SSL Certificates: Catastrophic failure modes in automation • Google Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Cross-region K8s management (KubeCon 2025) • GPG cleartext signature parsing vulnerabilities found 💡 Key Takeaways: • Platform teams own 70%+ of cloud spending decisions • FinOps + Platform Engineering = $175K+ compound skill premium • Senior FinOps Engineers average $150K, top earners reach $250K • 76% of organizations are increasing FinOps investment • New certifications: FinOps for AI (March 2026), FinOps for Containers 🎯 Skills Covered: • Tier 1: Cloud billing data, K8s cost allocation, unit economics • Tier 2: FOCUS specification v1.3, OpenCost/Kubecost, showback/chargeback • Tier 3: Automated rightsizing, committed use discounts, AI workload optimization 🔗 Resources: • FinOps Foundation: finops.org • OpenCost (CNCF): opencost.io • FOCUS Specification: focus.finops.org • Episode page: platformengineering.org/podcasts/00073-finops-2026-platform-engineers-guide #FinOps #PlatformEngineering #CloudCost #Kubernetes #DevOps #CNCF #OpenCost

    17 Min.

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The Platform Engineering Playbook Podcast is where AI meets open-source infrastructure knowledge—and you're part of the editorial process. Every episode is researched, scripted, and produced with AI, then reviewed by the community and published on GitHub for anyone to improve. Facing tool sprawl across 130+ platforms? Justifying PaaS costs to your CFO? Navigating the Shadow AI crisis hitting 85% of organizations? We tackle the messy realities of platform engineering that most content avoids, delivering data-backed insights and decision frameworks you can use Monday morning. Built for senior engineers, SREs, and DevOps practitioners with 5+ years in production, we dissect cloud economics, AI governance, infrastructure trade-offs, and career strategy—with the receipts to back it up. Think we got something wrong? Have better data? Open a pull request at platformengineeringplaybook.com. This is infrastructure podcasting as a living document, where the community keeps us honest and the content gets better with every contribution. Read the playbook at https://platformengineeringplaybook.com