Kubernetes and Platform Engineering Ramblings
The evolution of developer platforms has always been about providing the right abstractions at the right time. But what if your platform could not just serve humans through beautiful UIs, but also empower AI agents to interact with your business logic in a standardized, secure way? This is the promise of Backstage’s recent integration with …
2 of my favorite CNCF projects are Backstage and Crossplane. just under 6 months ago we released the first versions of our Backstage plugins which integrate Crossplane and Backstage to the community. It has been great to see the growing interest and adoption of the plugins over the past few months. With over 3.5k downloads …
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What has changed The initial feedback regarding the Backstage plugins we built which can be found here has been really great especially for the Crossplane related plugins! While the initial proof of concept work showed potential, it was heavily in need for better performance, enhanced functionality, and better integrations between the different parts of the …
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In the platform engineering space, two of the most impactful and interesting tools are Backstage and Crossplane. In this post, we will discuss and demonstrate how the two tools can be integrated to provide a great baseline for the ultimate developer platform. What is Backstage Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. It …
One of the things I have a huge issue with in the industry today, is the insistence on pushing a shift left approach. According to the CNCF glossary, Shift Left is the practice of implementing tests, security, or other development practices early in the software development lifecycle rather than towards the end. While this sounds …
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TDP is an amazing solution built on top of backstage, and the declarative nature in which it is configured and the entities are added is a huge benefit in my mind. With that said, one of the pain points this brings is user management. Users and Groups are entity types in backstage just log components …
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