# [Backstage](https://backstage.io)

![service-catalog](https://backstage.io/blog/assets/6/header.png)

## What is Backstage?

[Backstage](https://backstage.io/) is an open platform for building developer
portals. Powered by a centralized service catalog, Backstage restores order to
your microservices and infrastructure. So your product teams can ship
high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.

Backstage unifies all your infrastructure tooling, services, and documentation
to create a streamlined development environment from end to end.

Out of the box, Backstage includes:

- [Backstage Service Catalog](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/blob/master/docs/features/software-catalog/index.md)
  for managing all your software (microservices, libraries, data pipelines,
  websites, ML models, etc.)
- [Backstage Software Templates](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/blob/master/docs/features/software-templates/index.md)
  for quickly spinning up new projects and standardizing your tooling with your
  organization’s best practices
- [Backstage TechDocs](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/tree/master/docs/features/techdocs)
  for making it easy to create, maintain, find, and use technical documentation,
  using a "docs like code" approach
- Plus, a growing ecosystem of
  [open source plugins](https://github.com/spotify/backstage/tree/master/plugins)
  that further expand Backstage’s customizability and functionality

For more information go to [backstage.io](https://backstage.io) or join our
[Discord chatroom](https://discord.gg/EBHEGzX).

### Benefits

- For _engineering managers_, it allows you to maintain standards and best
  practices across the organization, and can help you manage your whole tech
  ecosystem, from migrations to test certification.
- For _end users_ (developers), it makes it fast and simple to build software
  components in a standardized way, and it provides a central place to manage
  all projects and documentation.
- For _platform engineers_, it enables extensibility and scalability by letting
  you easily integrate new tools and services (via plugins), as well as
  extending the functionality of existing ones.
- For _everyone_, it’s a single, consistent experience that ties all your
  infrastructure tooling, resources, standards, owners, contributors, and
  administrators together in one place.
