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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.