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Golden path service templates

Starting points for new services that come wired up correctly: CI, logging, metrics, health checks and deployment, without copying another team's repo.

Lifecycle

No dates planned beyond today.

  1. Proposeda year ago
  2. In developmenta year ago
  3. Rolling out11 months ago
  4. Generally available (current stage)8 months ago

Detail

What this is

create-service scaffolds a repository that already builds, deploys, reports metrics and passes the production readiness checklist. Templates exist for Go, Python, TypeScript and a plain container.

Who this affects

Anyone starting something new. Existing services are not required to adopt the templates, though the same building blocks are available separately.

Updates

Info

Python and Go templates updated to the 2026 baseline

Both templates now ship with the supported Ingress API, so services created from them are unaffected by the Kubernetes 1.31 upgrade.

Info

Templates are generally available