Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. Created by Spotify, it unifies all your infrastructure tooling, services, and documentation.
What You Get for Free
- Software catalog — track all services, libraries, APIs
- Software templates — scaffold new projects with best practices
- TechDocs — docs-as-code with Markdown
- Plugins — 100+ community plugins (K8s, CI/CD, cloud)
- Search — unified search across all tools
- RBAC — role-based access control
Quick Start
npx @backstage/create-app@latest
cd my-backstage-app
yarn dev
Register a Service
apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
name: my-service
description: My backend API
annotations:
github.com/project-slug: org/my-service
spec:
type: service
lifecycle: production
owner: team-backend
Why Backstage?
- Used by Spotify, Netflix, Expedia, HP
- Reduces cognitive load for developers
- Single pane of glass for all services
- Eliminates knowledge silos
Need developer portal setup? Check my work on GitHub or email spinov001@gmail.com for consulting.
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