Backstage

During March 7 to March 11 the maintainers will be taking part in Spotify's annual hack week. Development will continue as usual, but expect a slower pace for discussions and PR reviews. Why not take this opportunity to build a plugin?

What is Backstage?

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to your microservices and infrastructure and enables your product teams to 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 Software Catalog for managing all your software (microservices, libraries, data pipelines, websites, ML models, etc.)
• Backstage Software Templates for quickly spinning up new projects and standardizing your tooling with your organization’s best practices
• Backstage 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 that further expand Backstage’s customizability and functionality

Backstage was created by Spotify but is now hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox level project. Read the announcement here.

Project roadmap

A detailed project roadmap, including already delivered milestones, is available here.

Getting Started

Check out the documentation on how to start using Backstage.

Documentation

• Main documentation
• Software Catalog
• Architecture (Decisions)
• Designing for Backstage
• Storybook - UI components

Community

• Discord chatroom - Get support or discuss the project
• Contributing to Backstage - Start here if you want to contribute
• RFCs - Help shape the technical direction
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Code of Conduct - This is how we roll
• Adopters - Companies already using Backstage
• Blog - Announcements and updates
• Newsletter - Subscribe to our email newsletter
• Backstage Community Sessions - Join monthly meetup and explore Backstage community
• Give us a star ⭐️ - If you are using Backstage or think it is an interesting project, we would love a star ❤️

License

Copyright 2020-2021 © The Backstage Authors. All rights reserved. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our Trademark Usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Security

Please report sensitive security issues via Spotify's bug-bounty program rather than GitHub.

For further details please see our complete security release process.