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👋 Welcome to Backstage Weekly 112. We're dedicating this issue to plugins, both new and old, that have seen a bump in functionality and/or been released recently.
This week:
- Terasky release some killer Kubernetes & Crossplane plugins
- Kratix makes Backstage into a true Platform
- Open-source Tech Insights gets maturity ranks
Terasky release some seriously good K8s plugins
When we think of Backstage and Kubernetes, we often don't have great associations. The Backstage K8s plugin can be fiddly and doesn't always act in the way you'd expect.
To plug that gap, the folks over at Terasky (hat-tip to Scott Rosenberg ) have released a raft of new plugins that meaningfully move Backstage < > K8s forward.
Our personal favourite is the Kubernetes Ingestor plugin, which automatically pulls Kubernetes workloads into the Backstage catalog. That really is as cool as it sounds.
Check them out here or on GitHub .
Kratix brings oss platform dev and Backstage together
Speaking of big jumps forward in Backstage functionality, Kratix is a Syntasso -made OSS project dedicated to the platform-side of Platform Engineering. As their marketing site says: it makes Backstage into a full Platform, not just a Portal. You can instantiate infrastructure, autoingest it into the Catalog and generally interact with all the features you'd expect from a full Platform without leaving Backstage.
Nice stuff.
Check it out at here .
Tech Insights levels
The backend for the Tech Insights scorecard plugin is open-sourced and gets some great additions. Recently, it's seen the introduced of the concept of maturity.
We're currently understanding how much of this is a straight lift into our proprietary Tech Insights product (we have slightly different concepts, like the idea of a Scorecard, which don't exist in the open source version), but expect something on this soon.
In the meantime, check it out here .
