Backstage Weekly 100 - New Backend migration guide, Uplight case study, and v1.32 is here
By Sam Nixon • October 16th, 2024👋 The 100th edition of Backstage Weekly is here!
How do we celebrate such a momentous occasion? Fireworks? Street parties? Just send a weekly newsletter about Backstage? Probably the latter.
That said, there will be some limited edition Backstage Weekly merch for those attending KubeCon US in Salt Lake City next month (we’ll try and keep some for KubeCon EU in April).
This week:
- New case study: Uplight & Roadie
- New article: Migrating to the new Backend
- Project updates: v1.32 has landed
🚨 Case Study Alert: Uplight
Uplight are an energy company who have grown rapidly over the last few years and needed to solve the problem of a) how do you ensure discoverability of services when new teams and services are added constantly and b) how do you maintain high standards while growing. For Uplight, the answer was Roadie.
Want to start building on top of Backstage? Get a Roadie Backstage instance so you can start shipping features into your IDP without having to manage an instance. Get a demo now!
Finding your way with the new Backend
The new Backstage backend comes with nice things like simplified plugin installation. It is also a necessary prerequisite to get hold of exciting new features like Notifications.
To get to this treasure though you’re going to need to find your way through what may be a painful migration…
Have no fear though, Roadie Engineer, Miklos Kiss, just created a map to help guide you. It takes a deep dive into how to migrate while avoiding some common traps, issues, jagged rocks, sea monsters etc.
If you’re self-hosting Backstage, enjoy 🎉.
If you’re on Roadie: we’ve taken care of all of that for you 🤝 so read at your leisure.
Check it out on the Roadie blog.
Last but not least… version 1.32 is here
1.32 is out, but there are no release notes on backstage.io just yet - it’s that hot-off-the-press.
Here’s a few of the changes though:
- Auth: the profileEmailMatchingUserEntityEmail resolver is now officially removed
- The new Frontend system keeps trucking along with some changes to how Blueprints will work
The Scaffolder UI gets some tweaks. You can now use the Template Editor to sketch templates from zero.
- The GitHub release notes are here. Read the full v1.32 change set.