Beaming Ortelius
Ortelius is an evidence store that federates supply chain and DevOps intelligence providing an end-to-end view of an organization’s security profile. We invite speakers who specialize in DevOps, Supply Chain, open-source security, and microservices. Hosted by the contributors of the Ortelius Open Source Community Team.
Beaming Ortelius
Introduction to Platform Engineering with Backstage
Spotify Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. It provides a set of TypeScript libraries that can be composed together to build a developer portal for your engineering organization.
It was created inside Spotify and used there for a few years before being open-sourced in 2020. It is now a CNCF Incubating project. It combines a service catalog with a developer portal UI in order to improve engineering effectiveness and overall happiness.
Spotify Backstage can help you tackle a number of different engineering challenges.
- It collects software, tools, teams, people, and other assets into one place where they can be easily searched and organized. This helps improve discoverability.
- It tracks teams and software assets and makes it easy to create a clear linkage between them.
- It makes it easy to define pre-approved templates and create new software from them. This speeds up the software development process and improves production reliability and homogeneity.
- It is the perfect place to detect when an engineering standard is not being upheld and it can nudge teams in a better direction.
The main features of Spotify Backstage include a software catalog, a framework for building plugins, a place to store technical documentation (TechDocs), Software templates and a scaffolder to run them, and a Kubernetes plugin for providing visibility into how services operate there.
There are two main ways to get started with Spotify Backstage. You can self-host the open-source project, or you can use a SaaS provider such as Roadie.