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. …

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…