Introduction for Backstage 

Course & Training

A day of intensive introduction into the implementation of the Developer Portal using selected elements of Backstage (e.g., Kubernetes, docs-as-code, plugins, cost transparency).

Enterprise applications are becoming increasingly distributed, partly due to the use of microservice architectures. Keeping an overview of the IT landscape is one of the central challenges for a company. Backstage addresses this challenge with a decentralized approach, where development teams provide the data about the IT landscape, allowing a single pane of glass to be created centrally.

In-House Course:

We are happy to conduct tailored courses for your team - on-site, remotely or in our course rooms.

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Public Course Schedule:

   

Content:


We are building a Developer Portal together that illustrates the following topics:

- Introduction to Developer Portal
- Backstage Core Features
- Software Catalog
- Software Templates
- TechDocs (docs-as-code)
- Integration
- Kubernetes
- Authentication and Identity
- Extending Backstage
- Community Plugins
- Custom Plugins
- Platform Engineering

We focus on closely examining and understanding a specific selection of topics.


Disclaimer: The actual course content may vary from the above, depending on the trainer, implementation, duration and constellation of participants.

Whether we call it training, course, workshop or seminar, we want to pick up participants at their point and equip them with the necessary practical knowledge so that they can apply the technology directly after the training and deepen it independently.

Goal:

Building practical know-how and creating a comprehensive understanding for the efficient use of the Backstage ecosystem.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to independently set up, configure, and extend Backstage and understand the concepts of a Developer Portal.


Duration:

 1 Day (Is individually adapted for in-house courses.)


Form:

A proven mix of concepts, live coding and collaboration with Backstage. Always geared towards efficient usage in real-life projects and production.


Target Audience:

Software developers or platform teams who want to get an efficient start with Backstage and implement initial use cases with it.


Requirements:

Basic knowledge in software development with Node.js and React.


Preparation:

Each participant receives a questionnaire and installation instructions after registration. Matching the answers we send individual feedback.

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Waitinglist for public course:

Sign up for the waiting list for more public course dates. Once we have enough people on the waiting list, we will determine a date that suits everyone as much as possible and schedule a new session. If you want to participate directly with two colleagues, we can even plan a public course specifically for you.

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(If you already have 3 or more participants, we will discuss your preferred date directly with you and announce the course.)

More about Backstage



Backstage is an open-source framework from Spotify for building internal developer portals and has become the leading solution for platform engineering in large organizations. With its decentralized approach, Backstage enables development teams to manage their services, documentation, and infrastructure in a unified Software Catalog – a single pane of glass for the entire IT landscape. Thanks to a comprehensive plugin ecosystem and the active CNCF community, Backstage can be flexibly adapted to individual enterprise requirements.




History


Backstage was developed internally at Spotify to manage the growing complexity of a microservice architecture with thousands of services. After its open-source release in 2020, the community grew rapidly: Backstage was accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubating project in 2022 and reached the status of a graduated CNCF project in 2023. Today, Backstage has more than 3,000 adopters worldwide, including well-known companies such as LinkedIn, Siemens, Vodafone, and American Airlines.


With the growing importance of platform engineering as a discipline, Backstage has established itself as a central tool for improving developer experience and providing self-service capabilities for development teams. Managed service providers like Roadie allow companies to use Backstage without their own operational overhead, while in 2024 the CNCF introduced the Certified Backstage Associate as the first official certification for the framework.