Platform Tools Folder -

What is the most useful script in your team's tools/ folder? Let me know in the comments below.

Here is why adding a dedicated tools/ directory to your platform repository is the highest leverage, lowest effort change you can make this quarter. It is not a dumping ground. It is a curated, version-controlled, executable collection of scripts, binaries, and utilities designed to operate your platform. platform tools folder

The Secret Weapon of Platform Teams: Why You Need a tools/ Folder What is the most useful script in your team's 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. It is not a dumping ground

make db-failover Instead of: Finding the wiki, clicking three links, copying a broken command, and crying. My team used to spend 2 hours every Monday morning cleaning up stale environments. One person ran kubectl get ns , another ran a Python script locally, and a third manually deleted ECR images.