We are constantly exploring innovative ways to enhance our service delivery and empower our customers to achieve more. Our latest venture into Backstage, an open-source developer portal created by Spotify, is set to redefine how we and our customers manage software development lifecycles, visualize dependencies, and scale seamlessly. Here's a look at what Backstage brings to the table, how we’re using it, and why it’s a game-changer for our customers.
Backstage is more than just a developer portal. It’s a centralized hub designed to streamline software development by organizing and visualizing projects, systems, APIs, and documentation. Initially built by Spotify to tackle their challenges of scaling development teams, Backstage has evolved into a powerful open-source tool that fosters collaboration, enforces standards, and drives efficiency.
With Backstage, you can:
We’re leveraging Backstage to reimagine how we manage environments, support customer development workflows, and empower our own teams. Here’s a detailed look at how we’re implementing this game-changing platform:
At base2Services, every customer is unique, and their software environments are often complex. Using Backstage, we model each customer as a "domain" within the platform, allowing us to:
This model enables our team to proactively monitor customer environments, quickly diagnose issues, and better understand how different services interact within their ecosystems.
Backstage allows us to create and provide customizable, standardized templates that simplify and streamline workflows for both our teams and our customers. These templates include:
By providing these templates, we enable our customers to self-service their deployments while adhering to industry best practices. This not only saves time but also ensures consistency and quality across projects.
Backstage integrates seamlessly with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and AWS, enabling us to automate complex workflows. For example:
These automations reduce the burden on teams, freeing them to focus on delivering features rather than managing infrastructure or repetitive tasks.
With Backstage, we gain unparalleled visibility into our customers’ environments and services. Key benefits include:
This enhanced visibility ensures that both we and our customers can operate with confidence, knowing exactly how systems interact and who is responsible for maintaining them.
Backstage’s extensible framework allows us to integrate with popular monitoring and deployment tools. Some highlights include:
These integrations allow us to provide richer insights and a more streamlined experience for customers, helping them manage their infrastructure more effectively.
Backstage serves as a hub for all documentation, making it easily accessible to developers and teams. We ensure:
This centralized approach reduces friction in development, minimizes onboarding time for new team members, and ensures everyone is working from the same playbook.
Our customers want the freedom to deploy and manage their environments without delays. With Backstage, we deliver a self-service model that:
This self-service model aligns with our commitment to empowering customers while maintaining security, scalability, and efficiency.
We are building custom plugins to extend Backstage’s capabilities, including:
These plugins enable us to offer tailored solutions that meet the specific needs of each customer, enhancing their experience and delivering greater value.
By integrating Backstage into our operations and customer environments, we’re not only improving efficiency but also setting a new standard for visibility, governance, and scalability. This comprehensive approach ensures our customers are empowered to innovate while we continue to deliver exceptional service and support.
Backstage is a fantastic tool for organizations looking to streamline development and operational processes, and base2Services have tailored it to elevate the experience for our customers. Our focus on DevOps as a Service and expertise in AWS allow us to deliver solutions that enhance efficiency, scalability, and innovation for development teams.
One of the key benefits Backstage provides is the ability to empower development teams with self-service capabilities. By utilizing prebuilt templates available directly from base2Services’ repository of templates, developers can quickly and consistently bootstrap projects, deploy infrastructure, and set up new services. These templates, which include configurations for AWS services like Amazon ECS clusters, AWS CloudFormation stacks, and Amazon VPC setups, ensure that projects adhere to industry best practices while minimizing manual effort. With these tools, teams can focus on innovation rather than being bogged down by repetitive tasks.
Backstage also supports faster time-to-market by automating key elements of the development lifecycle. From pipeline creation to deployment, workflows are designed to reduce friction and ensure smooth operations, especially within complex AWS-based environments. This means that developers can start with a solid foundation built on proven standards, reducing errors and increasing efficiency.
Collaboration is another area where Backstage excels. It centralizes documentation, making critical information easily accessible to teams. This ensures that all stakeholders, from developers to operational teams, have a clear understanding of the dependencies, ownership, and status of services. For customers using our DevOps as a Service, this visibility is invaluable in aligning development efforts with business objectives.
Moreover, the base2Services and Backstage governance features provide an added layer of confidence. With clear ownership tracking and lifecycle management of components, teams can manage projects proactively and ensure long-term maintainability. This is particularly crucial for AWS environments, where complexity can grow quickly without proper oversight.
In essence, Backstage allows us to extend the capabilities of our DevOps as a Service offering, enabling our customers to leverage the power of AWS more effectively. By combining automation, centralized knowledge, and prebuilt templates from our repository, we help teams achieve their goals faster while maintaining the highest standards of quality and scalability.
base2Services see Backstage as more than just a tool - it’s a platform for innovation. We’re continuously exploring ways to enhance its capabilities through custom plugins, deeper integrations, and tailored templates. For our customers, this means staying ahead of the curve with solutions that not only meet their current needs but also anticipate future challenges.
We are building a better way to build software. It’s another step in our mission to simplify complexity and empower our customers to focus on what they do best: driving their businesses forward. Request a demo to see it in action
Curious about how Backstage can transform your development processes? Reach out to us today and let’s explore how we can put its power to work for your business. Together, we can create a developer experience that’s efficient, collaborative, and future-ready.