Platform Engineering with GitHub: Build Your IDP with Copilot, IssueOps, and Golden-Path Repos
The article discusses the challenges of toolchain sprawl in enterprise teams and how platform engineering can address these issues. It emphasizes that GitHub can serve as an effective platform without the need for additional tools. Key concepts include the Golden Path Pattern for onboarding and IssueOps for streamlining operations within GitHub.
- ▪Many enterprise teams struggle with toolchain sprawl and inefficient onboarding processes.
- ▪Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of software engineering organizations will establish platform teams.
- ▪The article introduces the Golden Path Pattern and IssueOps as solutions to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
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| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/htekdev/platform-engineering-with-github-build-your-idp-with-copilot-issueops-and-golden-path-repos-4gah |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 02:42:04 +0000 |
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 2155191) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Hector Flores Posted on May 20 • Originally published at htek.dev Platform Engineering with GitHub: Build Your IDP with Copilot, IssueOps, and Golden-Path Repos #platformengineering #github #devops #devex Every enterprise team I talk to is drowning in the same problem: toolchain sprawl. Backstage instances nobody maintains. ServiceNow tickets that take 3 days to provision a repo. Confluence pages with onboarding steps from 2022.
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