Backstage Buildkite Plugin

A list of builds in a table along with a status and retry button for each build.

See the Buildkite Backstage plugin in action

Installation steps

Install the plugin

yarn add @roadiehq/backstage-plugin-buildkite

Add proxy configurations

# app-config.yaml
proxy:
  '/buildkite/api':
    target: https://api.buildkite.com/v2/
    headers:
      Authorization: Bearer ${BUILDKITE_TOKEN}

Import it into your Backstage application

// packages/app/src/components/catalog/EntityPage.tsx
import {
  EntityBuildkiteContent,
  isBuildkiteAvailable,
} from '@roadiehq/backstage-plugin-buildkite';

Add plugin API to your Backstage instance

// packages/app/src/components/catalog/EntityPage.tsx

export const cicdContent = (
  <EntitySwitch>
    <EntitySwitch.Case if={isBuildkiteAvailable}>
      <EntityBuildkiteContent />
    </EntitySwitch.Case>
    ...
  </EntitySwitch>
);

Add annotation to your component-info.yaml file

metadata:
  annotations:
    buildkite.com/project-slug: <buildkiteorganization/buildkitepipeline>

Get and provide BUILDKITE_TOKEN as env variable.

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Things to know

Features

You might rebuild each build and track build progress with this plugin.

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