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Mar 8, 2022

Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 3

Here we explore securing our backend Plugin API. This is part of a series of articles starting with Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 1. In the previous article, we created a backend Plugin that exposed an endpoint, api/my-plugin/health and then accessed from the frontend Plugin. Thinking about that implementation, we…

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Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 3
Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 3

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Mar 8, 2022

Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 2

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…

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Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 2
Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 2

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Mar 6, 2022

Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 1

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. …

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Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 1
Backstage Plugins by Example: Part 1

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Mar 1, 2022

Backstage and Kubernetes by Example

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…

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Backstage and Kubernetes by Example
Backstage and Kubernetes by Example

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Feb 21, 2022

Backstage by Example (Part 3)

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…

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Backstage by Example (Part 3)
Backstage by Example (Part 3)

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Feb 19, 2022

Backstage by Example (Part 2)

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…

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Backstage by Example (Part 2)
Backstage by Example (Part 2)

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Feb 17, 2022

Backstage by Example (Part 1)

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 —…

Developer Tools

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Backstage by Example (Part 1)
Backstage by Example (Part 1)
Developer Tools

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Jan 10, 2022

AWS SSO, Okta Universal Directory, and OpenLDAP by Example

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…

AWS

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AWS SSO, Okta Universal Directory, and OpenLDAP by Example
AWS SSO, Okta Universal Directory, and OpenLDAP by Example
AWS

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Dec 24, 2021

Planning Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Compute Resources

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 …

Google Cloud Platform

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Planning Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Compute Resources
Planning Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Compute Resources
Google Cloud Platform

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Dec 13, 2021

Kubernetes Stateful Deployments

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…

Kubernetes

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Kubernetes Stateful Deployments
Kubernetes Stateful Deployments
Kubernetes

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