An open source framework for building developer portals
Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to your infrastructure and enables your product teams to ship high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.
The Speed Paradox
At Spotify, we've always believed in the speed and ingenuity that comes from having autonomous development teams. But as we learned firsthand, the faster you grow, the more fragmented and complex your software ecosystem becomes. And then everything slows down again.
The Standards Paradox
By centralizing services and standardizing your tooling, Backstage streamlines your development environment from end to end. Instead of restricting autonomy, standardization frees your engineers from infrastructure complexity. So you can return to building and scaling, quickly and safely.
Backstage Software Catalog
Build an ecosystem, not a wilderness
Manage all your software, all in one place
Backstage makes it easy for one team to manage 10 services — and makes it possible for your company to manage thousands of them
A uniform overview
Every team can see all the services they own and related resources (deployments, data pipelines, pull request status, etc.)
Metadata on tap
All that information can be shared with plugins inside Backstage to enable other management features, like resource monitoring and testing
Not just services
Libraries, websites, ML models — you name it, Backstage knows all about it, including who owns it, dependencies, and more
Discoverability & accountability
No more orphan software hiding in the dark corners of your tech stack
Backstage Software Templates
Standards can set you free
Like automated getting started guides
Using templates, engineers can spin up a new microservice with your organization's best practices built-in, right from the start
Push-button deployment
Click a button to create a Spring Boot project with your repo automatically configured on GitHub and your CI already running the first build
Built to your standards
Go instead of Java? CircleCI instead of Jenkins? Serverless instead of Kubernetes? GCP instead of AWS? Customize your recipes with your best practices baked-in
Golden Paths pave the way
When the right way is also the easiest way, engineers get up and running faster — and more safely
Backstage TechDocs
Docs like code
Free documentation
Whenever you use a Backstage Software Template, your project automatically gets a TechDocs site, for free
Easy to write
With our docs-like-code approach, engineers write their documentation in Markdown files right alongside their code
Easy to maintain
Updating code? Update your documentation while you're there — with docs and code in the same place, it becomes a natural part of your workstream
Easy to find and use
Since all your documentation is in Backstage, finding any TechDoc is just a search query away
Backstage Search Platform
A search platform made just for you
Way more than a text box
Backstage Search more than just a box you type questions into — it's an entire platform all by itself, which you can customize to fit your organization's needs
Search the way you want
Bring your own search engine, create a customized search page experience, or edit the look and feel of each search result
Index everything, find anything
With an extensible backend, you can search beyond the Software Catalog and index any source you'd like — whether it's TechDocs or Confluence and Stack Overflow
Discoverability unlocked
New hires and seasoned employees alike can easily search your infrastructure instead of getting lost in it
Backstage Kubernetes
Manage your services, not clusters
Kubernetes made just for service owners
Backstage features the first Kubernetes monitoring tool designed around the needs of service owners, not cluster admins
Your service at a glance
Get all your service's deployments in one, aggregated view — no more digging through cluster logs in a CLI, no more combing through lists of services you don't own
Pick a cloud, any cloud
Since Backstage uses the Kubernetes API, it's cloud agnostic — so it works no matter which cloud provider or managed Kubernetes service you use, and even works in multi-cloud orgs
Any K8s, one UI
Now you don't have to switch dashboards when you move from local testing to production, or from one cloud provider to another
Customize Backstage with plugins
An app store for your infrastructure
Add functionality
Want scalable website testing? Add the Lighthouse plugin. Wondering about recommended frameworks? Add the Tech Radar plugin.
BYO Plugins
If you don't see the plugin you need, it's simple to build your own
Integrate your own custom tooling
Building internal plugins lets you tailor your version of Backstage to be a perfect fit for your infrastructure
Share with the community
Building open source plugins contributes to the entire Backstage ecosystem, which benefits everyone
Backstage is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubation project
