GitOps and Platform Engineering for Self-Service Infrastructure

Establishment of a platform engineering practice with GitOps-driven workflows that enable developers to self-service compliant infrastructure and application deployments through curated templates and automated guardrails.

PRACTICE

Platform Engineering & Secure Delivery

CLIENT PROFILE

Enterprise IT organization seeking to provide development teams with self-service infrastructure while maintaining security, compliance, and operational guardrails

Challenge

Developers blocked by infrastructure request queues and manual provisioning processes
Shadow IT emerging as teams work around slow central IT processes
Difficulty balancing developer agility with security and compliance requirements

Approach

Build an internal developer platform with curated, pre-approved infrastructure templates
Implement GitOps workflows where Git repositories are the single source of truth for desired state
Establish policy-as-code guardrails that enforce security and compliance automatically
Create golden paths for common application patterns that embed best practices by default

Typical Outcomes

Developer self-service reducing infrastructure request lead time from days to minutes
Reduced shadow IT through attractive, compliant platform offerings
Consistent security and compliance enforcement without manual gate reviews

Procurement Paths

DoD ESI for GitLab platform licensing
NASA SEWP V for platform infrastructure
GSA MAS for platform engineering services

Partner Technology Examples

GitLab
Red Hat
Spectro Cloud
Rancher Government Solutions

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