Platform Tools Folder ^new^ May 2026

Platform engineering is not about building more abstractions. It is about reducing toil. And nothing reduces toil like a folder full of buttons (that you can git grep ).

You don’t need a new platform. You need a . platform tools folder

# tools/bootstrap-dev #!/bin/bash # Installs the exact versions of Terragrunt, Helm, and Node used in production ./tools/install-tfenv && tfenv install ./tools/install-helm-3.14 A tools/ folder is useless if nobody knows how to invoke it. Add a Makefile at your repo root to act as the catalog. Platform engineering is not about building more abstractions