Announcing the 2025 State of Backstage report
Roadie

Backstage Docker Image

Roadie maintains a public Backstage docker image for the community to use. You can find it on Docker Hub . It will quickly give you a sense of what Backstage is and how you might use it.

Prerequisites

  1. Docker installed and running locally on your computer.
  2. A GitHub Personal Access Token with the repo, user, read:org and read:discussion scopes.

Instructions

Run the following command, replacing [TOKEN] with your token. Once it starts up, Backstage will automatically open your browser on localhost:7000 .

bash
docker run -p 7000:7000 --env GITHUB_TOKEN=[TOKEN] roadiehq/community-backstage-image:latest

Caveats

Backstage must be heavily customized before you can use it inside your organization. This requires editing the Backstage source code — something you cannot do with this community Backstage docker image.

To learn how to customize Backstage, check out the official getting started guide .

Want to get started even faster?

Check out Roadie's no-code SaaS Backstage platform.