Greenfield Platform Build

A greenfield platform build creates the first paved road for new services. The risk is overbuilding before real teams validate the workflow.

Build priorities

Start with the minimum viable platform:

Account, subscription, or project structure.
Identity and access baseline.
Network and ingress pattern.
Runtime platform choice.
CI/CD pipeline template.
Secrets and configuration pattern.
Observability baseline.
Service template and documentation.

Build sequence

Pilot requirements

The first pilot service should exercise:

Repository creation.
Build and test pipeline.
Artifact publishing.
Infrastructure provisioning.
Deployment and rollback.
Secrets and identity.
Logs, metrics, traces, and alerts.
Runbook and service catalog entry.

Success criteria

A greenfield platform is ready to expand when a team can create, deploy, observe, and support a service through documented workflows without private platform-team intervention.

Watchouts

Avoid building a platform for imagined future requirements.
Do not skip governance because there are no legacy systems yet.
Keep early abstractions thin and debuggable.
Capture deviations from the golden path as product feedback.