Compliance-Aware Platform Engineering

Explore how to integrate compliance requirements into platform engineering practices through this 26-minute conference talk from Conf42 Platform Engineering 2025. Learn about the regulatory landscape and its design implications for modern platform engineering, examining how delivery models have evolved to accommodate compliance needs. Discover the fundamental building blocks of compliance by design and understand the specific challenges faced in financial services environments. Examine the evolution of platform engineering and how provisioning frameworks can enforce policy compliance automatically. Understand how golden images contribute to maintaining compliance standards and explore continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) approaches that embed compliance checks throughout the development lifecycle. Master the concept of Policy as Code and learn how to enable self-service capabilities while maintaining strict compliance requirements. Analyze a real-world case study from a financial organization that successfully implemented compliance-aware platform engineering practices. Review a practical implementation roadmap for organizations looking to adopt these approaches and understand the key takeaways for building compliant, scalable platform engineering solutions in regulated industries.