How to Cite:
Saranya GS, "Zero-Touch Platform Engineering Framework for Cloud Infrastructure Automation" International Journal of Humanities Science Innovations and Management Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 32-36, 2026.

Abstract:
The rapid adoption of cloud computing has transformed enterprise software development and infrastructure management by enabling scalable, resilient, and highly available digital services. However, managing cloud infrastructure through traditional manual provisioning and configuration methods has become increasingly complex due to the growing scale of distributed systems, multi-cloud deployments, and continuous software delivery practices. Platform engineering has emerged as a strategic discipline that enables organizations to standardize infrastructure management while improving developer productivity through Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). Simultaneously, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, DevSecOps, artificial intelligence (AI), and policy-driven automation have collectively paved the way toward Zero-Touch Platform Engineering (ZTPE), where infrastructure provisioning, governance, monitoring, compliance, and lifecycle management require minimal human intervention. This research proposes a comprehensive Zero-Touch Platform Engineering Framework for Cloud Infrastructure Automation that integrates Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes orchestration, AI-assisted operations, policy-as-code governance, GitOps deployment pipelines, and continuous observability into a unified automated ecosystem. The proposed framework minimizes operational overhead while improving deployment consistency, security compliance, scalability, and operational resilience. A comparative analysis demonstrates that the proposed framework significantly outperforms conventional cloud management approaches across deployment speed, configuration consistency, resource utilization, recovery time, and operational efficiency. The findings indicate that zero-touch automation represents a sustainable direction for next-generation cloud-native platform engineering.

Keywords: Zero-Touch Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure Automation, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Artificial Intelligence, Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platform, Cloud Computing.

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