Leveraging GenAI for Seamless Developer Experiences in Backstage
summary
Backstage hosts an embedded Docker OpenWebUI instance (running on port 8800) so developers can chat with local LLMs (Ollama, LLaMA variants, Mistral, Gemma) from the platform; a custom Backstage plugin wires that container into the catalog and UI, supports model switching, document RAG (upload app docs as a knowledge base), preserves chat history, and wires to templates that cut onboarding from ~2–3 weeks to minutes for repo, Kubernetes and cloud provisioning.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:06Platform engineering overview
- 5:31The role of Backstage
- 11:20Integrating GenAI
- 15:11Live demonstration
- 17:57Conclusion and Q&A
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