Unleashing the Power of Harness and Backstage: Streamlining Software Delivery
summary
Shows a working Backstage+Harness integration that exposes Harness pipelines, status and logs (logs currently redirect to Harness) and lets developers run pipelines from the portal; software templates auto-generate Jira tickets and approvals to provision GCP accounts; plugins pull GitHub, Jira, PagerDuty, Grafana and cost-insights APIs into one view with conversions to US dollars or engineer-equivalents; deploys require TypeScript/React expertise, teams report 150–200 plugins at scale, and a managed commercial IDP offering is underway.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:44What is Backstage and developer portals
- 4:15Backstage demo and plugins overview
- 7:10Service definitions and ownership graphs
- 9:16Software templates and automation
- 11:24Why Backstage over other tools
- 13:35Plugin architecture and customization
- 17:26Harness CI/CD plugin integration
- 19:53Building plugins easily with templates
- 21:41UI customization and entity pages
- 23:24Value and challenges of plugins
- 24:47API enhancements from plugins
- 25:08Harness and Backstage combined platform
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