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Platform Engineering 101: Building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage
Platform Engineering 101: Building an Internal Developer Platform with Backstage
Platform Engineering replaces scattered DevOps toolchains with a paved road — here is how to build an Internal Developer Platform using Backstage as your foundation.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you scale Backstage catalog ingestion when tracking thousands of components across multiple GitHub organizations?
Switch from URL-based catalog locations to the GitHub Discovery provider, which uses GitHub's API to auto-discover catalog-info.yaml files across all repos without manually registering each one. Pair with a PostgreSQL backend and increase the catalog refresh interval to avoid GitHub API rate limits at scale.
How do you implement RBAC in Backstage so squads can only see and deploy their own services?
Use Backstage's permissions framework with a custom policy plugin. Define ownership via the spec.owner field in catalog-info.yaml and write policy rules that check the calling user's group membership against the component owner before allowing actions like triggering scaffolder templates or viewing sensitive plugin data.
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