The Developer Portal: Backstage and Golden Paths
A Backstage portal with a service catalog, golden-path templates that create production-ready services in minutes, docs-as-code, and plugins that show each service's deploys, pods, and health in one place.
Stage 0 made the cluster self-service. This stage gives developers a front door: one place to find every service and its owner, create a new service the approved way, read its docs, and see its deployments and health. Backstage (created at Spotify, now a CNCF project) is the most widely used open-source portal framework.
+ ShopLite gains: a Backstage portal with the ShopLite catalog, a 'New Spring Boot service' golden-path template, TechDocs, and Kubernetes/Argo CD plugins
- 1.1
Backstage and the Service Catalog
A running Backstage app whose catalog lists every ShopLite service, API, team, and resource, with owners, discovered automatically from Git.
60 minFree locally1 break-its - 1.2
Golden Paths: Software Templates
A developer fills in a form in Backstage and gets, in minutes, a new service repo with code, Dockerfile, CI, GitOps config, catalog entry, and dashboards, all following platform standards.
70 minFree2 break-its - 1.3
TechDocs, Plugins, and Scorecards
Each service page in Backstage shows its docs, pods, Argo CD deployments, and a production-readiness score, so developers and on-call engineers have one place to look.
50 minFree (S3 for docs storage in production)1 break-its