What you wire into the template

A golden path is where you decide what every new service inherits. Key points:

• Wire in the CI steps, the scanning steps, and the ownership and on-call metadata so they travel with the work from the first commit.
• Bake in the conventions your org has already agreed on: naming, catalog registration, default policy bindings, the deploy target shape.
• The template generates real artifacts (a repo, CI configuration, catalog entries). The platform delegates execution to your CI and tools; the template is how you make sure the controls are present before anyone runs anything.