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Rollups for Tech Insights

Rollups aggregate Scorecard and Check data by team and department, up and down your organisational hierarchy, and let you add scorecard information to teams in the catalog.

Measuring Catalog Correctness and completeness

A Catalog with rich information for every software asset in your organization is the ultimate dream. But you won’t get there in a day. Thus, you need a way to track your progress toward Catalog correctness and completeness.

Live custom Backstage plugins within seconds

Develop custom plugins with a live preview within Roadie Backstage, and deploy them to production in seconds with the Roadie CLI.

Our First 12 Month SOC2 Type 2 Report

We're very excited to say that we just gained our first 12 Month SOC2 Type 2 Report! This report is a big deal for us and shows just how dedicated we are to keeping your data secure and private.

Decorators for rich Team pages

Today we released a feature we call Decorators. Decorators allow you to easily add metadata to the stuff you track in your Roadie Backstage catalog. This metadata is stored within Roadie, and not written to YAML.

New Catalog UI, certified templates, more tutorials

This month we're rolling out a huge visual update to the catalog with much more space to get your work done. We've also got a bunch of new Tech Insights tutorials to help you improve software across your org.

Backstage Gets Quality and Compliance Scorecards with Roadie

Roadie, the no-code Backstage Developer Portal, is launching Tech Insights to help organizations track software quality, security and compliance

Using Backstage’s Scaffolder to Fill up your Catalog

Make software onboarding a one-click experience in your Dev Portal and boost your adoption rate. Here's a step-by-step tutorial for that.

Backstage Users Unconference: a wrap-up

Last week we had a blast hosting the 4th Backstage Users Unconference! Over 95 people showed up to share how they’re using Backstage and brainstorm solutions to common problems.

Roadie is sponsoring "Unpacked": The Ultimate Virtual DevOps Conference

We are thrilled to announce that Roadie is sponsoring the first-ever "Unpacked." This virtual conference, hosted by Cloudsmith, promises to bring together DevOps professionals and engineering leaders worldwide.

Backstage during KubeCon EU ‘23

Backstage was undoubtedly one of the recurring topics of the conference, with at least five talks dedicated to the framework and several others referencing it. As you walked through the busy venue, it was common to pick up people mentioning “Backstage” as you rushed through the busy venue.

Roadie mentioned in The Pragmatic Engineer

At a readership of 160k+ tech professionals, The Pragmatic Engineer has received a lot of praise from the enterprise software and scale-ups industry. For their column on Backstage, the Roadie team had the opportunity of contributing our experiences with Gergely Orosz.

New in Roadie: Automated language tagging for GitHub entities

Roadie can now automatically bring this information from GitHub and associate the corresponding languages to your entities through a tag or a label, depending on your preference.

Incident Management in your Backstage Developer Portal

Backstage has a handful of plugins that integrate incident managers into your Internal Developer Portal. In this post, you'll get an overview of each of them, including what they do.

Roadie customers are not affected by Backstage’s RCE vulnerability

Last week, the Oxeye research team published a report of a vulnerability found in Backstage caused by an outdated vm2 third-party library. Roadie customers are unaffected by this vulnerability because their instances are upgraded regularly (currently at v1.8) and due to extra security measures in the Scaffolder implemented in Roadie from the beginning.

Backstage consolidating its role in the Cloud native ecosystem

At the moment, Thoughtworks, Red Hat, Gartner, VMWare, and the Linux Foundation endorse Backstage as a viable solution for improving the developer experience of growing engineering teams through a Developer Portal.

Wrap up: BackstageCon and KubeCon NA 2022

Backstage made its way to the center stage last week in Detroit, as maintainers, contributors, and adopters deepened their relationship and shared their excitement about the framework with the wider Cloud Native community.

Roadie.io is boosting Backstage Developer Portals for Scale-Ups with Scorecards

Roadie.io, the company offering a CNCF Backstage SaaS option, is extending the most popular Developer Portal framework by introducing Tech Insights.

Roadie now keeps the catalog in sync with your GitHub with the webhooks API!

As a Roadie user, editing a Backstage YAML file in your GitHub repo will result in those changes almost immediately appearing in your Catalog. Our team designed and implemented a GitHub integration based on webhooks to replace the default poll-based discovery shipped in Backstage.

Measuring and Improving Software Quality with Roadie Backstage

Improve software quality and set minimum standards in your engineering organization with Roadie's new Tech Insights feature. Coming soon.

Roadie Has Achieved SOC2 Type 2 Compliance

We have achieved SOC2 Type 2 compliance. We have a set of mature and robust security and availability practices at Roadie and wanted to validate them against industry standards. We see this achievement of SOC2 Type 2 compliance as a milestone in our ever-improving security journey.

Backstage Home plugin on Roadie

The Backstage Home plugin is now available to all Roadie Backstage users. Learn what it is, why it exists, and how to use it on Roadie.

The Backstage scaffolder is now generally available on Roadie

When we first launched hosted Backstage, we made the hard decision to disable the scaffolder for security reasons. Today we are launching a re-designed and hardened scaffolder architecture which is safe for Roadie customers to use.

Deploy a GitHub pages website with the Roadie Backstage scaffolder

Learn how to deploy a GitHub pages website from a predefined skeleton. The Backstage Scaffolder will automatically create a GitHub repo, fill it with templated code, call the GitHub API to enable GitHub pages and hook our new website to a monitoring tool.

10 reasons to get Backstage from Roadie

From getting started faster to growing adoption faster. We believe Roadie is the right choice for many companies. Here's why.

Roadie's response to recent log4j vulnerabilities

Roadie is not impacted by the log4j vulnerabilities, CVE-2021-44228 or CVE-2021-45046, also known as log4shell.

OAuth Token Exchange: AWS → GCP

How to exchange short lived tokens between AWS and GCP

How to model monorepos in Backstage

There are multiple different ways to represent monorepos in Backstage, each with its own setup, benefits and drawbacks. We show you how to do it in your situation.

Plugins migration to monorepo

Major change in the way we handle our plugins.

GitHub Apps - How to avoid leaking your customer’s source code with GitHub apps

How to avoid leaking your customer’s source code with GitHub apps.

Backstage TechDocs - How to embed lucid chart diagrams

TechDocs converts markdown files to Backstage docs so your engineering teams can find them and it is very useful. But how do we embed diagrams from lucid chart.

How to model software in Backstage

How to use Backstage concepts — components, APIs, systems and domains — to model software and represent the relationships between different pieces of code.

Developer portals are a superpower

A rebuttal of a post by AWS guru Corey Quinn, who claims that developer portals are an anti-pattern.

Backstage TechDocs - How it works

TechDocs converts markdown files to Backstage docs so your engineering teams can find them. But how does it work and how do you set it up?

Deploying Backstage application to AWS ECS Fargate

How to deploy Backstage to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) using the Fargate serverless computing engine to run Docker containers

How to deploy Backstage on KIND Kubernetes

How to build and run Backstage on a local Kubernetes cluster created with KIND.

Using GitHub Auth with Backstage

Setting up GitHub authentication can be a little tricky, but this post will tell you everything you need to know.

Running the Backstage service catalog with Docker Compose

How to build and run Backstage Docker containers to get started with the service catalog in Docker Compose.

How to use the Backstage Lighthouse plugin

The first plugin shipped by the Backstage team is a Lighthouse plugin. It allows you to track your website speed over time in Backstage.