Backstage

We are interested in understanding the open-source and commercial dimensions of the Backstage ecosystem. It has showed up a lot in our market research, and provides a compelling way to reach the community in both open and commercial ways, and our goal is to understand and use to align with our revenue strategy.

Delivering internal developer portals.

Backstage is an open-source platform (created at Spotify and now a CNCF project) for building internal developer portals that centralize a company’s software ecosystem—services, data pipelines, websites, libraries, infrastructure, and more—into a single, searchable catalog. It provides opinionated building blocks like the Software Catalog, Software Templates (scaffolder) for “golden paths,” TechDocs for docs-as-code, and a rich plugin system so teams can surface CI/CD status, deployments, cost, ownership, and runbooks in one place. The goal is to tame sprawl, standardize workflows, and give developers a self-service hub that speeds delivery while improving reliability and governance.

License: Apache 2.0

Tags: Portals, Catalogs

Properties: Domains, Systems, Components, APIs, Resources, Groups, Locations, Templates

Website: https://backstage.io/


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