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From: Nicolai Ort <info@nicolai-ort.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:20:38 +0100
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+title: "Build Your Golden Path Construction Playbook: A Maturity-First Implementation Approach"
+weight: <index of talk on the day>
+tags:
+ - platformengineeringday
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+A lot of people have talked about golden paths for platforms since KubeCon EU 2022 (including the speaker of this session).
+Most of these talks only tell you why you need this and about the value-add but not about the journey.
+
+## Baseline
+
+- Golden Path: A supported opinioated way to build and deploy software that makes the right wa the easiest way while not beina a mandate but a product and roducing decision fatique
+- Intro analogy: The bikepaths are the golden path of amsterdam: Strongly oppinionated and self-service, safe by default and built progressivly -> Reduces cognitive load
+- The golden path always related to the journey across the platform maturity model (our lord and savior of the day)
+
+## How do we start (and continue)
+
+### Phase 0: Chaos
+
+- Every team has their own deployment script (or just `kubectl apply -f`)
+- Same goal, 0 consistency, no standards
+- Deploy latest, no limits, ....
+
+### Phase 1: Standardize
+
+> Unify existing scripts
+
+- One script, one template, every team -> Teams just insert thgeir image, name, ...
+- Resource Limits, healthchecks, labels -> Everything enforced by default
+- Same command -> Consistent output every time
+
+### Phase 2: Validate + make it scalable
+
+> Improve the previously unified script
+
+- Config driven -> Declarative YAML instead of cli arguments
+- Reject bad inputs before they touch the cluster
+- Environment-aware defaults for dev, staging and prod
+
+### Phase 3: GitOps
+
+> The script still handels creation/validation we only move the apply
+
+- `git push` instead of `kubectl apply`
+- Tool watches the repo and deploys automaticly
+- Every deployment is a commit -> Audit trail and rollbacks
+
+### Phase 4: IdP
+
+- Same validation and push logic
+- Replace the script + template with a form -> No more YAML or CLI needed
+- Any developer can use it and deploy
+
+## Journey overview
+
+TODO: Steal from slides
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