Backstage Workshop

Agenda

• Setting up Backstage instance locally (guide)

• Explore the core features (guide)

• Create a Frontend Plugin (guide)

• Create a Backend Plugin (guide)

• Deploy an instance of Backstage on minikube using the Backstage Helm Chart (guide)

Prerequisites for this workshop

• Node.js version >=18.12.0 (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.17.1) :

  • Using nvm (recommended)

    • Installing nvm

    • Install and change Node version with nvm

    • nvm install 18
      

      nvm use 18.17.1
      

• yarn

  npm install --global yarn
  

  yarn --version
  

• pip3

• Prefered IDE Visual Studio Code

Good to have

• Any Kubernetes cluster preferably minikube
• kubectl
• Helm CLI