Golden Paths & Templates

Purpose and scope

Offer ready-to-use templates and tooling so new services start compliant.

Outcomes

• Faster onboarding and consistent services.
• Built-in observability and governance.
• Lower support load.

Signals of trouble

• Teams fork templates and drift.
• Docs lag templates; confusion grows.
• Adoption stalls for lack of fit.

Remediation steps

1. Maintain a small set of high-quality templates.
2. Include dev containers, CI, observability, GitOps defaults.
3. Track adoption and retire unused paths.

Checklists and assets

• playbooks/golden-paths-for-devs/checklist.md template items.

References

• Template repos; onboarding guides.