Backstage
Adopted by over 3,400 companies and backed by 34,000 GitHub stars, Backstage is the open-source developer portal framework created by Spotify and now hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The centralized Software Catalog registers every service, library, data pipeline, website, and ML model in your organization using YAML metadata files stored alongside code in GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or GitLab, tracking ownership, lifecycle status, and dependency relationships across your entire ecosystem. Software Templates provide self-service infrastructure provisioning where developers fill out a form and Backstage automatically scaffolds new repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud resources following your organization's standardized best practices. TechDocs renders Markdown documentation directly alongside the services it describes using a docs-like-code approach powered by MkDocs, with the TechDocs Addon Framework for extending the reading experience. The Search Platform indexes content across the catalog, TechDocs, Confluence, and Stack Overflow through configurable search backends. Kubernetes monitoring built specifically for service owners rather than cluster admins displays pod health, logs, and deployment status across any cloud provider or managed Kubernetes service. The plugin ecosystem includes over 230 open-source integrations covering CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions and GitLab Pipelines, monitoring platforms like Datadog and Grafana, cloud providers including AWS and Azure, plus specialized plugins for security scanning, cost management, API documentation, PagerDuty incident management, and Lighthouse website auditing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
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