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Introduction for Backstage
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.
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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.
The actual course content may differ from the above depending on the trainer, delivery, duration and the composition of participants.
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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.Further resources:
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.