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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. …

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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. …

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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