Building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage Plugins
summary
Describes a Backstage platform plugin that generates a per-instance CLI binary (IDP) with the Backstage API URL baked in, letting developers run the scaffolder, clone repositories by reading catalog repository annotations, and stream IDP logs from the service tied to the current working directory. Lays out five concrete use cases: create a service that auto-deploys, edit secrets and trigger redeploy, deploy a branch to a new environment, access logs, and view resources a service consumes; integration uses resolvers and adapters to sit on top of existing CI, k8s, and secret backends.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00The future of DX
- 2:36Platform plugin demo
- 8:56Contextual development
- 16:14Bridging tools and platforms
- 21:48Implementation and architecture
- 24:13Q&A and future outlook
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