Backstage Weekly 97 - Scaling Backstage, CNCF launch a new Backstage course
By Sam Nixon • September 23rd, 2024Hi y’all! Backstage Weekly 97 is here! 1.31 is here, the CNCF are launching a new course, and we’re blogging about handling Backstage when it gets big.
This week:
- New article: How to scale Backstage
- Project updates: the new Backend reaches v1.0
- CNCF updates: a new Certified Backstage Associate programme is rolling out soon
- New video: HCA talk about self-hosting Backstage on GCP
Scaling Backstage
Last week it was Catalog performance, this week we take a deep dive into the infrastructure side of running a large Backstage instance (without breaking the bank and/or your spirit). It’s hot off the press, check it out!
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CNCF are launching a Certified Backstage Associate programme
The good folks over at the CNCF are launching a new qualification: the Certified Backstage Associate (CBA) programme.
Roadie folks were involved in writing the programme and we’re super-excited to see how it can help grow the community.
More details can be found here. Check it out!
Video: HCA talk about how they build their Backstage IDP to accelerate cloud adoption
A few months ago at Google’s Next ‘24 conference, HCA demoed how they built out a Backstage implementation to standardise and modernise their stack. HCA are a behemoth in terms of size and age (they were founded in 1968 and employ over 300,000 people…), so it’s great to see how Backstage can help them progress on their platform and cloud journey.
Version 1.31 is out
The new backend is at a stable 1.0 version, capping a monumental effort from the community. There are (and will continue to be a few breaking changes though). The biggie in this release is:
“The backwards compatibility with plugins using legacy auth through the token manager service has also been removed. This means that instead of falling back to using the old token manager, requests towards plugins that don’t support the new auth system will simply fail.”
Read more in the release notes.