What is Backstage? (Explainer Video)

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. We created it at Spotify and open sourced it during our Hack Week in March 2020. Since open sourcing it, Backstage has become a Sandbox project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (home to Kubernetes and Envoy).

So, what exactly is a Backstage developer portal? And what magical properties does it possess?

For a developer, it can be the fastest way to create a new software component. For platform teams, it can be the easiest way to encourage best practices. For your entire engineering org, it can be the central nervous system for all your software, tooling, and documentation. Since it has the capability to do so many things, Backstage can be almost anything.

But all that sounds very broad and vague, and is not a very good answer. This two-minute video explains it much better. Watch it — and the next time someone asks, “What is Backstage?”, just point them right back here.

Learn more about Backstage — the open platform for building developer portals that reduces infrastructure chaos😤 and increases developer happiness🥰:

🛠 For features, demos, and docs: https://backstage.io

🚀 For help on how to get started: https://backstage.spotify.com

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