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Platform Engineering Technical Community Group

The CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group (TCG) focuses on platform engineering practices, tools, and patterns that help development teams self-service their infrastructure needs while maintaining consistency, security, and governance across an organization. It is a Technical Community Group, not a User Group — see Governance for the distinction between the two.

Focus areas​

  • Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) — platform architecture, service catalogs, platform APIs, and multi-tenancy.
  • Golden paths — paved roads, reusable templates, and documented best practices.
  • Self-service capabilities — environment provisioning, CI/CD integration, service dependencies, and built-in observability.
  • Platform as a product — product thinking, user research, metrics, and feedback loops.
  • Developer experience — portals, CLI tools, documentation, onboarding, and support models.
  • Operational practices — GitOps, infrastructure as code, policy as code, security, and cost management.

Who should join​

  • Practitioners building or operating internal developer platforms
  • Architects designing self-service infrastructure and golden paths
  • Engineering leaders measuring and improving developer experience

How to participate​