Taming the Chaos: Building Your First Developer Portal with Backstage and Kubernetes.
As engineering teams grow, so does the complexity. Developers are often burdened with heavy load from navigating sprawling microservices, inconsistent tooling, and complex cloud infrastructure. The result? Slower onboarding, duplicated effort, and a frustrating developer experience.
This is where Platform Engineering and the concept of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) come in.
In this practical, hands-on talk, we will tame the chaos by building our very own developer portal from scratch using two powerful open-source tools: Spotify's Backstage and Kubernetes.
Platform Engineering is the New DevOps: The talk introduces the core concepts of Platform Engineering. Attendees will understand that building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) is a modern approach to solving developer pain
Backstage is the FOSS Standard: will learn that Spotify's Backstage is not just another tool, but a mature, CNCF-graduated open-source project that serves as standard for building developer portals.
"Golden Paths" Empower Developers: A crucial takeaway is the power of Software Templates (or "Golden Paths"). Attendees will see fhow these templates enable developer self-service, allowing anyone on the team to create a new, production-ready service that automatically includes all the team's best practices (e.g., CI/CD, monitoring, security).
Yash Vilas Mahakal
Please showcase an actual project using Backstage. As it is becoming more and more common in use in k8s circles, it would be good for you to add something new to the conversation. It would be nice to know how you are applying this knowledge in the real world. I don't see any of your work cited, but it would be good to see a demo or something.