Creating and using a backend Plugin. This is part of a series of articles starting with Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 1. As a reminder, we are moving towards our goal of creating a Plugin that will allow us to associate an AWS S3 Bucket with a Backstage Component and…

A complete walk through of creating a non-trivial Backstage Plugin. This article builds upon the series of articles starting with Backstage by Example (Part 1). Backstage comes with a number of core features, e.g., Software Catalog, Kubernetes, Software Templates, Backstage Search, and TechDocs. …

In this article, we explore the Backstage Kubernetes core feature. Kubernetes in Backstage is a tool that’s designed around the needs of service owners, not cluster admins. Now developers can easily check the health of their services no matter how or where those services are deployed — whether it’s on…

We wrap up this series by exploring the steps required to deploy Backstage to a container runtime. This is article is part of a series starting with Backstage by Example (Part 1). Please note: In the interest in keeping this article focused on the key points, it does not call…

We continue to configure our Backstage App; ending up with a sensible authentication and authorization solution. This is article is part of a series starting with Backstage by Example (Part 1). Clearing Out Sample Data Having finished up working through the two Backstage Getting Started documents, we are left with a Backstage App with…

A hands-on walk-through of installing and configuring a Backstage App for our use. What is Backstage? Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to your microservices and infrastructure and enables your product teams to ship high-quality code quickly —…

A walk-through of setting up AWS SSO backed by Okta Universal Directory (and OpenLDAP). In this article, we walk through the steps involved in using AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO). AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is where you create, or connect, your workforce identities in AWS once and manage access…

Categorizing GCP compute resources to understand them. GCP offers a range of compute resources and thus it is challenging to determine which to use. To help differentiate them, here we categorize them based on the following factors: Container: Capable of running containerized workloads Access: SSH access to underlying virtual instance …

A solution for stateful, yet interchangeable, workloads. The Challenge Let us consider the situation were we need to run a stateful Kubernetes workloads on a Cluster; the standard solution is to run it as a StatefulSet. StatefulSet is the workload API object used to manage stateful applications. Manages the deployment and scaling…