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Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Authors: Shahar Shmaram, Ran Mansoor
2023-04-20
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The presentation discusses the challenges faced by a company during hyper growth and how they implemented a solution using GitHub's methodology and Backstage to manage their resources and visualize them in one place.
- The company faced challenges during hyper growth such as lack of alignment, manually managed resources, unknown resource dependencies and ownership, exploding budget, and lack of technical documentation.
- They implemented a solution using GitHub's methodology which emphasizes declarative infrastructure as code, versioning, immutability, automatic deployment pipelines, and continuous reconciliation.
- They also used Backstage, an open platform for building developer portals, to manage their resources in one location, write documentation easily, search for information, use automated software templates, and create self-contained plugins.
- The solution was auditable, declarative, had a single source of truth, was community-driven, self-serve, and provided visibility.
- An anecdote was given about how the GitHub solution detected a drift in a policy and automatically brought it back to its desired state.
- Tags: AI, Cybersecurity, DevOps, GitHub, Backstage, hyper growth, resource management, visualization, automation, documentation, self-serve, community-driven.
Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Authors: Suzanne Daniels, Rotem Refael
2023-04-19
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The presentation discusses the importance of shifting left in cybersecurity and how to implement it using the open-source platform, Backstage.
- Backstage is an open-source platform for creating a developer portal that is extensible through plugins.
- Plugins can be created for displaying data, adding logic, and expanding storage.
- Shifting left in cybersecurity is crucial to prevent misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in clusters.
- Backstage can be used to implement shifting left in cybersecurity by creating a plugin for scanning and fixing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
- An anecdote is shared about a company that successfully created a plugin for their open-source tool using Backstage.
Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Authors: Ben Lambert, Patrik Oldsberg
2023-04-19
Ben and Patrik, both maintainers on the popular open source project Backstage, will talk through the state of the project and the new features that are coming your way. Coming off the back of BackstageCON in Detroit, the Backstage maintainer team have been working hard to get the Backend System ready for rollout, and some new features for the Scaffolder. They will show in detail what these new features mean, and how you can start using them today to start to improve your Backstage deployment in your organization. Ben and Patrik will also dive into a little bit of what is next for Backstage and what you can expect to see in the coming year, and what they're excited for!
Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Authors: Muvaffak Onus, Sidarta Aguiar de Oliveira
2022-10-27
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The presentation discusses the creation of an internal developer platform to provide autonomy to developers and make their day-to-day tasks easier.
- The platform is a self-service portal that provides tools, templates, utilities, and automation to bring infrastructure architecture infosex standards to the teams.
- Developers can choose from a variety of templates, including serverless coding, front-end applications, and Docker.
- The platform integrates with various tools, including New Relic, Sonar Cube, and Argo CD.
- The infrastructure is provisioned using cross-plane and AWS.
- The platform provides developers with autonomy, reduces delivery time, and ensures security and monitoring standards.
- The platform has resulted in 100 AWS accounts managed by the platform, 109 applications, 13 templates, and 195 resources.
- The platform has been successful in providing developers with the autonomy they need and making their day-to-day tasks easier.
Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
Authors: Johan Haals, Patrik Oldsberg
2021-10-13
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The presentation discusses the development and evolution of Backstage, a platform for consolidating engineering tools in one place to reduce fragmentation and speed up onboarding of new engineers.
- Backstage was developed by Spotify to address the problem of scattered engineering tools and lack of information about services.
- It started as System C, an inventory of services, but was reworked to make it more extensible and accommodate other categories of entities like data pipelines and websites.
- Backstage has a plug-in framework that allows for more isolated feature development and a unified interface for all tooling, making it easier for engineers to venture into other domains.
- The use of Backstage has resulted in a significant reduction in onboarding time for new engineers at Spotify.